Quotes About Imagination

It is impossible to imagine to oneself a man who has no freedom otherwise as deprived of life

As is often the case with those gifted with an ardent imagination, though he had long known that Moscow would be abandoned, he knew it only with his intellect, he did not believe it in his heart and did not adapt himself mentally to this new position of affairs.

Now then, leave the children to themselves

Will the freshness, unconcern, need for love and strength of faith you posses as a child ever return? What time could have been better than when the two finest virtues - innocent gaiety and a limitless need for love - were life's only impulses? Where are those ardent prayers? Where is the best gift - those pure tears of tenderness? A comforting angel would fly down to dry those tears with a smile and waft sweet reveries into the uncorrupted imagination of childhood.

?ikayet etti?iniz ya?am, belki de ba?kas?n?n hayalidir.

the most experienced and skilful painter-technician would be unable, for all his mechanical ability, to paint anything unless the boundaries of the content were first revealed to him.

Gaea? Isn't that Mother Nature? She's supposed to have, like, flowers in her hair and birds singing around her and dear and rabbits doing her laundry."

Il est doux de rêver à un idéal et de le bâtir dans sa pensée. Mais c'est encore, à dire le vrai, fort peu de chose. Qu'est-ce qu'un idéal qui n'est qu'un jeu, ou mettons même un rêve très pur ? Il faut le bâtir, après cela, dans l'existence.

My method of writing is to take the most basic kind of line and improvise on it. After all, I am the child of the culture which created Jazz.

Like so many creative men of his school he was hounded by an incessant restlessness.

A wall of books is a wall of windows.

I have my best ideas when I am alone.

Deprivation is the mother of poetry.

My page was too white My ink was too thin The day wouldn't write What the night pencilled in

The Dream" "O I had such a wonderful dream, she said. I dreamed you made love to me. At last, he said to himself, the spirit has taken up some of the heavy work.

Comic books, movies, radio programmes centered their entertainment around the fact of torture. With the clearest of consciences, with a patriotic intensity, children dreamed, talked, acted orgies of physical abuse. Imaginations were released to wander on a reconnaissance mission from Cavalry to Dachau. European children starved and watched their parents scheme and die. Here we grew up with toy whips. Early warning against our future leaders, the war babies.

Jos pääni hohtaisi ja ihmiset alkaisivat tuijottaa rautiovaunuissa; ja voisin venyttää vartaloni läpi kirkkaan veden sekä viipyä kalojen ja rantakäärmeiden rinnalla; jos voisin turmella sulkani lennolla auringon edessä; luuletko että pysyisin tässä huoneessa, lausumassa sinulle runoja, kehitellen hävyttömiä fantasioita huultesi vähäisimmistäkin liikkeistä?

If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often. It's a mysterious condition. It's much like the life of a Catholic nun. You're married to a mystery.

It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder. — Leonard Cohen, The Favorite Game . (Vintage; Reprint edition October 14, 2003) Originally published January 1st 1963.

For, the wise G. K. Chesterton observed, "We are perishing for want of wonder, not for want of wonders.

The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.

Most offensive is what he imagines a person thinks about himself.

Hello, I'm Leonard Nimoy. The following tale of alien encounters is true. By true I mean false. It's all lies. But they're entertaining lies and in the end, isn't that the truth? The answer is no.

It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.