Quotes About Imagination

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.

I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.

This is what it means to create: not to make something out of nothing, but to make order out of chaos. A creative scientist or historian does not make up facts but orders facts; he sees connections between them rather than seeing them as random data. A creative writer does not make up new words but arranges familiar words in patterns which say something fresh to us.

What might have been" is a pretty good definition of Hell.

When Halliburton expressed curiosity about this "inconceivable power," Bob took him into his room, showed him his "immense file of pictures," and gave him a lecture on visualization. Far from being impressed, Halliburton became convinced that "Irwin had no pre-imagination, none whatsoever. That was his whole problem. He could imitate things. He couldn't create things.

The virtuous man is contempt to dream what the wicked man really does.

Plato made this point several thousand years ago when he wrote: "The virtuous man is content to dream what the wicked man really does.

For colour is one of the most rapturous truths that can be revealed to man.

Art is the expression of the invisible by means of the visible

Love your imagination for it is the heart of your creativity.

staring out windows impossible to defenestrate therefrom.

Een boek bestaat alleen uit woorden. En dat is het prachtige ervan. Het is misschien niet gemaakt van de stof waarvan dromen gemaakt zijn, maar wel van iets dat er vlak naast gelegen heeft.

The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as for evil, is a thing which ought most seriously to be reflected upon.

Writing derives from an accumulation of experience. It's as if you collect facts and observations over time, like a stone to stand on. From there, imagination takes over.

Instead, I value my images by what's in them; what they convey; and how people respond, react, pause while viewing them, or, perhaps, are enlightened by them.

Writing is traveling through uncharted territory - your mind. You are the first traveler, and your essays are the world's first maps.

Building your brand doesn't take millions. It takes imagination.

What wonderful things dreams are! They can make you be anything you want and take you anyplace in the world.

Good dreams don't come cheap, you've got to pay for them and If you just dream when you're asleep this is no way for them to come alive... to survive.

Reality is only just a word.

I have those dreams that you can't put into words.

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.