Quotes About Imagination

And then you find yourself living what you never imagined. ~ Author Unknown

I know the first film I ever saw it must have been some time in 1924, when I was six or so... was Black Beauty. About a stallion. I still recall a sequence with fire. It was burning, I remember that vividly. And I remember too how it excited me, and how afterwards we bought the book of Black Beauty and how I learned the chapter on the fire by heart at that time I still hadn't learned to read.

I am living permanently in my dream, from which I make brief forays into reality.

When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in our imagination. The sequence of pictures plays directly on our feelings. Music works in the same fashion; I would say that there is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect. And film is mainly rhythm; it is inhalation and exhalation in continuous sequence.

Reality is perhaps not at all what I imagine. Perhaps it doesn't exist, in fact. Perhaps it only exists as a longing.

When I was a child, I imagined the soul to be a dragon, a shadow floating in the air like blue smoke—a huge winged creature, half bird, half fish. But inside the dragon, everything was red.

When children paint, they express their ideas rather than their perception, and when Picasso had recourse to such a technique, then that was his personal response to his approaching death.

Breakthrough to Creativity.

For example, to a viewer who has never seen an actual atomic reactor, what they are sensing can be described as a teapot, both of which are hot and 'cook'.

If so, then this definition stands as one of the earliest blueprints, in English, for fundamental reality-box making.

also for some strategic reconceptualizing – which should deeply interest anyone trying to get out of the box.

Indeed, most people are culturally discouraged from making their own reality treks into reality constructing.

Considering all of the above, Sagan seems not only to have been an astronomer and a fiction writer, but also something of an intuitive "seer.

People fill in the unknown with what fits with THEIR known.

To a large extent, creativity is self-generated in areas of the mind beyond or beneath the individual's willful, conscious control. All he can do is discipline his consciousness to accommodate the needs of the creative process.

To be attached to one's dreams and yet to advocate reality constituted no contradiction in Chagall's eyes.

and I am quite sure that they are worth being painted.

To create works of art meant no less to him than to paint life, not mere reality, but the principle of life.

This isn't business. This is poetry.

The literature of childhood abounds with evidence that the peaks of a child's experience are not visits to the cinema, or even family outings to the sea, but occasions when he escapes into places that are disused and overgrown and silent. To a child there is more joy in a rubbish tip than a flowery rockery, in a fallen tree than a piece of statuary, in a muddy track than a gravel path.

He hated the war; it threatened much more than his lifestyle or peace of mind. It continually destroyed the world of the imagination, the only world where he felt happy.

Forgive the dreamer Forgive the dream

The greatest discoveries have come from people who have looked at a standard situation and seen it differently.

Someday, he thought, I would like to meet a monster who looked like a monster.