Quotes About Imagination

My hand tells me what I'm thinking.

It would be very interesting to preserve photographically not the stages, but the metamorphoses of a picture. Possibly one might then discover the path followed by the brain in materializing a dream.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not

Imagination is real.

A picture is not thought out and settled beforehand. While it is being done it changes as one's thoughts change. And when it is finished, it still goes on changing, according to the state of mind of whoever is looking at it. A picture lives a life like a living creature, undergoing the changes imposed on us by our life from day to day. This is natural enough, as the picture lives only through the man who is looking at it.

People who read are people who dream.

Sve što možeš da zamisliš je stvarno.

To know what you're going to draw, you have to begin drawing.

Some painters turn a yellow dot into the sun, others turn the sun into a yellow dot.

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

Jedes Kind ist ein Künstler. Das Problem ist, ein Künstler zu bleiben, wenn du erwachsen bist.

L'art lave notre âme de la poussière du quotidien.

I do not search; I find.

El artista es un receptáculo de emociones que vienen de cualquier sitio: del cielo, de la tierra, de un pedazo de papel, de una sombra pasajera o de una telaraña.

The imagination can become our own free and wild territory. When all else fails, it can offer a refuge.

Language doesn't heal terror and if it brings us closer to imagining the sufferer's experience, this too doesn't necessarily make us feel greater compassion, but desire for further sensation. If we cannot articulate pain beyond inspiring in the listener a need for revenge, we only speak of and to the body.

Sometimes all you need is a sprinkle of magic.

Your wildest misperceptions, your weird imaginings, your blackest nightmares all mean nothing." —A COURSE IN MIRACLES

Writers, it is said, all carry a chip of ice in their hearts

Every writer is a reader first.

The body is a treacherous friend. Give it its due; no more. Pain and pleasure are transitory; endure all dualities with calmness, trying at the same time to remove yourself beyond their power. Imagination is the door through which disease as well as healing enters. Disbelieve in the reality of sickness even when you are ill; an unrecognized visitor will flee!

just imagine!" I ejaculated.

The beguiling scope of an infant's mind! adultly considered to be limited to toys and toes. Psychological