Quotes About Imagination

If a viewer responds to Botticelli's Venus with an erotic desire, as if she is a pinup, he is actually not appreciating her for her beauty. And if someone enjoys looking at a Gauguin painting of Tahiti while fantasizing about going on vacation there, then they no longer have an aesthetic relation to its beauty.

curled up, closed his eyes, and marched himself off, as if sleep were an actual place, like home, like the kitchen—a place a mouse could go to.

While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.

art is made by the alone for the alone… The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication...

A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.

While thought exists, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living. Cyril Connolly (English critic and editor, 1903-1974)

God is only a great imaginative experience.

There is a sixth sense . . . that is the sense of wonder.

And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything as you like it, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose, and it's always daisy-time.

Non fidatevi mai dell'artista. Fidatevi del racconto.

Get engaged, to any man on earth? No, good heavens, nothing more ridiculous could be imagined!

Odd, eccentric people they were, these entertainers. Most of them had a streak of imagination, and most of them drank. Most of them were middle-aged. Most of them had an abstracted manner; in ordinary life, they seemed left aside, somehow. Odd, extraneous creatures, often a little depressed, feeling life slip away from them. The cinema was killing them.

If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night.

If there weren't so many lies in the world ... I wouldn't write at all.

And out of a pattern of lies art weaves the truth.

Oh yeah, and Spader was hanging out with a penguin -Bobby Pendragon

The vital power of an imaginative work demands a diversity within its unity; and the stronger the diversity the more massive the unity.

Dimmi, dimmi se mai fu fatta cosa alcuna

From the nature of reality in our life experience at the present time, we say these sliding doors are new, or the ceiling is old. We imagine that this ceiling was made several decades or several centuries ago because of its present nature of appearing old. Yet in reality, only the present exists. The past and the future do not exist [separate from the present].

appeared on their backs. Then Kirsty and Rachel noticed that the

Oh, I hope we meet another Princess Fairy today," Rachel whispered

goblin's eyes widened with excitement. "Ooh! I feel just like

Daisy Meadows

Francesca the Football Fairy