Quotes About Imagination

Every artist would like to live in the central organ of creation... Not all are destined to get there... but our beating hearts drive us deep down, right into the pit of creation.

Combine your mental images with the emotion of desire to accelerate their realization.

I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close.

Probably the most potent desire for a painter, an image-maker, is to see it. To see what the mind can think and imagine, to realize it for oneself, through oneself, as concretely as possible.

There's a desire in me to express something - to match what I hear in my head.

An artist... must actively caress wonder: for fascination, like the desire to play, can be eradicated by the rigors of living.

I have found that great ideas come when you have a great desire to have them.

Geometry alone is not enough to portray human desires, expressions, aspirations, joys. We need more.

I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.

Art gives to you a new conception of reality, opens your mind, opens your heart, opens your desire of action.

The creator does not create only for the pleasure of creating but . . . he also desires to subdue other minds.

I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire.

Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.

When the creative spirit stirs, it animates a style of being: a lifetime filled with the desire to innovate, to explore new ways of doing things, to bring dreams to reality.

Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.

I had the desire to paint the figure without actually painting the figure.

Desire suppressed finds its way into other more surreal settings, into dreams.

It seems to me that there are certain thoughts and vignettes and attitudes that I have always had the desire to represent.

To read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another

To lose yourself in a book is the desire of the bookworm. I mean to be taken. That is my desire.

I had a very strong desire to carry out adventures, but in those early days I didn't actually do any. I just dreamt about it.

I'm not looking for sequels, but when something comes to you, and you're already a fan of that world, you have the desire to do it your way.

If you desire a thing, picture it clearly and hold the picture steadily in mid until it becomes a definite thought-form.

I mean, I'm just speaking of my own experiences and my own desires, and it's a kind of a childlike wonder that could really possibly speculate on other dimensions.