Quotes About Imagination

A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It's a creator of inwardness.

He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met to be the sea; and the greatest things that have fallen within our knowledge we conclude the extremes that nature makes of the kind.

Oh, nature's noblest gift, my grey goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from the parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men.

Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.

The pleasure derived from viewing the achievements of others, coupled with a true appreciation of nature, sharpens the desire to express pictorially.

One reproduces only that which is striking; that is to say, the necessary. Thus, one's recollections and inventions are liberated from the tyranny which nature exerts.

The night Makes everything grotesque. Is it because Night is the nature of man's interior world?

Art is man added to Nature.

An epithet or metaphor drawn from nature ennobles art; an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature.

Compared to Nature we suffer a poverty of imagination; it is thus much easier for us to uncover than to invent.

For me, the world of nature bears spectacular witness to the imaginative genius of our Creator.

To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality.

The artist beholds in nature more than she herself Nature is conscious of.

An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.

Nature has no outline. Imagination has.

If a child never sees the stars, never has meaningful encounters with other species, never experiences the richness of nature, what happens to that child?

Even when we look at nature, our imagination constructs the picture.

All of our ideas come from the natural world: trees equal umbrellas.

But oh! each visitation Suspends what nature gave me any my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination.

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.

Appearance should never attain reality, And if nature conquers, then must art retire.

The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature.

In recent poems, I have abandoned the theme of not being able to write for an even more obsessive subject, the nature of language, particularly English, in the formation of my imagination and being.

What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.