Quotes About Imagination

Everything you look at can be turned into a story ... you can make a tale of everything you touch.

She was lying on a sofa, fast asleep. She was so very beautiful that the merchant's son was driven to kiss her. She woke up and was dreadfully frightened, but he said that he was a Prophet of the Turks and he had flown down through the air to see her, and this pleased her very much.

I have gone through the most terrible affair that could possibly happen; only imagine, my shadow has gone mad; I suppose such a poor, shallow brain, could not bear much; he fancies that he has become a real man, and that I am his shadow.

Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.

You are a dreamer, and that is your misfortune.

Everyman's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.

Through a painting, we can see the whole world.

To make a great dream come true, you must first have a great dream.

Prin instruirea sufletului s?u, potrivit imaginilor frumuseÈ›ii obiective, omul care se maturizeaz? trebuie s?-È™i însuÈ™easc? treptat arta discern?mântului, adic? a desluÈ™irii frumosului în sine.

The ability to dream is all I have to give. That is my responsibility; that is my burden. And even I grow tired.

The wall was an eyesore in its newness, grayness, lack of grace. That much blank space might not set a regular person's blood racing, but to an artist, it's like opening up a new sketchpad, the kind with heavy textured paper. Impossible to leave it empty.

What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.

I once knew this guy. Went by the name ShakesSPHERE. Greatest writer who ever lived, only he never wrote anything down.

What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.

We read to find ourselves, more fully and more strangely than otherwise we could hope to find.

All writers are to some extent inventors, describing people as they would like to see them in life.

Rereading old books is the highest form of literary pleasure and instructs you in what is deepest in your own yearnings. Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you, because it is, at least in my experience, the most healing of pleasures. It returns you to otherness, whether in yourself or in friends. Imaginative literature is otherness and as such, alleviates loneliness.

Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in society but as the deep self, our ultimate inwardness.

People cannot stand the saddest truth I know about the very nature of reading and writing imaginative literature, which is that poetry does not teach us how to talk to other people: it teaches us how to talk to ourselves.

You have nothing to lose but the chains of reality.

All the romance of trout fishing exists in the mind of the angler and is in no way shared by the fish.

What would music, art, poetry, or literature be without emotion?

A Seed for Contemplation: Creative people who cherish the gift of life often slip into the secret chambers of the creative mind. Their solutions are well-rounded, more sensible than those of people who rely solely upon reason as their mainstay. Gratitude unseals fountains of creativity, because a grateful person is relaxed. This allows him to take stock of his circumstances with an objective mind. A creative person often gets three-dimensional answers to his problems. —

There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.