Quotes About Imagination

Lovely one, your eyes are too big for your face, your eyes are too big for the earth. There are countries, there are rivers, in your eyes, my country is your eyes, I walk through them, they light the world through which I walk, lovely one. — Pablo Neruda, from "Lovely One," The Captain's Verses: Love Poems . (New Directions Publishing Corporation; Bilingual edition July 2004) Originally published 1952.

Para mí los libros fueron como la misma selva en que me perdía, en que continuaba perdiéndome.

Ognuno ha una favola dentro che non riesce a leggere da solo. Ha bisogno di qualcuno che con la meraviglia e l'incanto negli occhi, la legga e gliela racconti.

Es una casa tan grande la ausencia que pasarás en ella a través de los muros y colgarás los cuadros en el aire. [Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air]

Para que tú me oigas mis palabras se adelgazan a veces como las huellas de las gaviotas en las playas.

Sin mirar hacia ninguna dirección libremente, incontrolablemente se me soltaron mis poemas.

la locura, cierta locura, anda muchas veces del brazo con la poesía. Así como a las personas más razonables les costaría mucho ser poetas, quizás a los poetas les cuesta mucho ser razonables.

In you is the illusion of each day.

El pie del niño aún no sabe que es pie, y quiere ser mariposa o manzana. Pero luego los vidrios y las piedras, las calles, las escaleras, y los caminos de la tierra dura van enseñando al pie que no puede volar, que no puede ser fruto redondo en una rama.

If the color yellow runs out with what will we make bread?

We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

There is only one way to see things, until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

Painting it's a blind man profession. Painter is painting not what he sees but what he feels.

Todo lo que puedas imaginar es real.

When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid.

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought