Quotes About Imagination

Lucy saw a big black and white animal behind a fence.

What you couldn't see and only imagined was always scarier than what was real.

Honestly, Bob: how do you carve a scream?

I doubted I would need my eyes. I drew in the dark, after all.

In peaceful times in a peaceful country a man grows up, goes to school, marries, works, suffers illnesses, grows old. He may go through the whole of life without understanding what freedom is. No doubt he always feels free to the extent to which it is proper for a respectable citizen with average powers of imagination to be free.

I do not hear gunshots, but watch birds splash over the backyards of the suburbs. How bright is the sky as the avenue spins on its axis. How bright is the sky (forgive me) how bright.

dont force your brains to get ideasbecause you didnt see ideas is around youyou will know the defferent result both of them "ideas is simple to findthe creativity is on your mindstarted follow your heart to open imaginationyou will see a great things

Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt

Imagination is usually nothing but the search for middle run profits by those to whom short run channels are blocked. When

I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.

Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.

líneas de Tolstói, o hayas escuchado una de las grandes piezas musicales, o hayas visto un cuadro o al menos su reproducción. No olvides el sueño que ha renacido.

I believe in writing — nothing else; just writing. Man may live like a worm, but he writes like a god. There was a time when that secret was known, but now it has been forgotten; the world is composed of disintegrating fragments, an incoherent dark chaos, sustained by writing alone.

the confines of prison walls cannot impose boundaries on the flights of one's fantasy

What I love about stories the most is the power they have to teach us of possibilities that might not occur to us without them.

Women's imagination – unlike men's, I would argue – does not always need the erotic equivalent of Semtex to ensure detonation.

Reading is a vice which can replace all other vices or temporarily take their place in more intensely helping people live, it is a debauchery, a consuming addiction. No, I don't take any drugs, I take books.

Vivere meravigliandosi. [...] Scrivere meravigliandosi.

Damals fing ich auch an, alles was ich las, entstellt zu lesen. Wenn irgendwo stand >Sommermoden<, habe ich gelesen >Sommermorde<. [...] Die neuen Wintermorde sind angekommen, sie werden schon in den wichtigsten Mordhäusern vorgeführt.

What actually is possible, however, is transformation. And the transformative effect that emanates from new works leads us to new perception, to a new feeling, new consciousness

The children are in love but do not know with what. They talk in gibberish, muse themselves into an indefinable pallor, and when they are completely at a loss they invent a language that maddens them. My fish. My hook. My fox. My snare. My fire. You my water. You my current. My earth. You my if. And you my but. Either. Or. My everything...my everything...They push one another, go for each other with their fists and scuffle over a counter-word that doesn't exist.

Keeping my eyes on the page and my head in someone else's story is about the only distraction that works.

Winners, I am convinced, imagine their dreams first. They want it with all their heart and expect it to come true. There is, I believe, no other way to live." 

It doesn't matter if anyone else ever sees my pictures or not. They are for me, part of who I am and how I express my interpretation of what I see in this world.