Quotes About Imagination

Was there some subtle affinity between the chemical atoms that shaped themselves into form and colour on the canvas and the soul that was within him? Could it be that what that soul thought, they realized? -- that what it dreamed, they made true?

He played with the idea and grew wilful; tossed it into the air and transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy and winged it with paradox. The praise of folly, as he went on, soared into a philosophy, and philosophy herself became young

Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art.

As for being poisoned by a book, there is no such thing as that. Art has no influence upon action.

The only things that one can use in fiction are the things that one has ceased to use in fact.

sought to imprison within his brain some curious dream from which he feared he might awake.

But in the case of an artist, weakness is nothing less than a crime, when it is a weakness that paralyses the imagination.

No Artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

The people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. what they call thier loyalty, and thier fidelity, i call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect- simply a confession of failure.

Ordinary women never appeal to one's imagination.They are limited to their century. No glamour every transfigures them. One knows their minds as easily as one knows their bonnets. One can always find them. There is no mystery in any of them.

There is such a thing as robbing a story of its reality by trying to make it too true...

I had been foolish in imagining that I had seen anything in it, more than that you were extremely good looking, and that I could paint.

It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain.

The is nothing that art cannot express

My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.

É o espectador, e não a vida, que a arte, na verdade, espelha.

Ningún artista es morboso. El artista está capacitado para expresarlo todo.

The whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.

If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.

I'm too fond of reading books to care to write them.

What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.

Bronze-limbed and well-knit, like a statue wrought by a Grecian, he stood on the sand with his back to the moon, and out of the foam came white arms that beckoned to him, and out of the waves rose dim forms that did him homage. Before him lay his shadow, which was the body of his Soul, and behind him hung the moon in the honey-coloured air.

Leave us some unreality. Do not make us too offensively sane.

But then the only things that one can use in fiction are the things that one has ceased to use in fact.