Quotes About Imagination

As Isabel Allende said, "You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend or not." Step

To address right-brained people, you use pictures, appeals to the imagination, color, rhythm, and space.

Brain righties love open space.

Guerrilla marketers do not rely on the brute force of an outsized marketing budget. Instead, they rely on the brute force of a vivid imagination.

It's one thing to relay a fact to a person. It's a whole different thing when you tell a story.

People's memories improve 68 percent when they have a visual element to recall.

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.

Take your desires for reality! can be understood as the ultimate slogan of power.

When you take away verisimilitude, you do not automatically find the veridical but, perhaps, the implausible.

Intelligence is analysing things as they are. Imagination is conceiving them as they could be. Morality is conceiving them as they should be. Magic is making them occur the way you conceive them. There is no longer any interest in the mental hygiene of killers. Today we have only the mental hygiene of the victim, and the art of using one's own misfortune as a credit card.

In the classical imagination, Evil was still a mythical power. There was still a Mephisto or a Frankenstein to embody the principle of Evil. Our evil is faceless and without imagination. We no longer need the Devil to steal our shadows. There are no powers doing battle above our heads, fighting over our souls. No longer any need for the lubricious agency of capital to extort our labour-power from us. We no longer have any shadows, any souls, and we are stakeholders in our own lives.

Instead of dreams being the place where desires from real life are fulfilled, it would be the real that was the place where desires born of dreams would be fulfilled. Dreams would be a search engine. The Aborigines, for example, scorning biological paternity, give priority to begetting by dreams. Reality would gain by this in becoming much more mysterious and dreams would cease to be the dumping ground of the unconscious.

Theory is never so fine as when it takes the form of a fiction or a fable.

A child's reaction to this type of calamity is twofold and extreme. Not knowing how deeply, powerfully, life drops anchor into its vast sources of recuperation, he is bound to envisage, at once, the very worst; yet at the same time, because of his inability to imagine death, the worst remains totally unreal to him. Gerard went on repeating: Paul's dying; Paul's going to die' but he did not believe it. Paul's death would be part of the dream, a dream of snow, of journeying forever.

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

Le cinéma, c'est l'écriture moderne dont l'encre est la lumière.

When I make a film, it is a sleep in which I am dreaming.

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it.

Classifiable things reek of death. You must strike out in other spheres . . . quit the ranks. That's the sign of masterpieces and heroes. An original, that's the person to astonish and to rule.

Un beau livre, c'est celui qui sème à foison les points d'interrogation. »

Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture.

Il y a dans le dessin une très grande jouissance. L'écriture, c'est le dessin noué autrement. (...) Et quand je dessine, j'écris, et, peut-être, que quand j'ecris, je dessine.

The spirit of creation is the spirit of contradiction, the breakthrough of appearances toward an unknown reality.