Quotes About Imagination

The women posed for snapshots. Dozens of snapshots. . . . They imagined that, long after the soldiers had become old, perhaps even after they'd died, someone would come to wonder about these women holding up rifles or tommy guns or donuts and laughing with their grandfathers in front of the big dark truck.

I dreamed of a hummingbird made of sky.

Art is made by the alone for the alone.

The Art of Seeing. It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean, to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis.

Si me dijeran: te quedan veinte años de vida, ¿qué te gustaría hacer durante las veinticuatro horas de cada uno de los días que vas a vivir?, yo respondería: dadme dos horas de vida activa y veinte horas de sueños, con la condición de que luego pueda recordarlos; porque el sueño sólo existe por el recuerdo que lo acaricia.

Of course, fantasy and reality are equally personal, and equally felt, so their confusion is a matter of only relative importance.

Añadiré —Dalí me lo hizo observar— que los surrealistas eran guapos.

I've always believed that the imagination is a spiritual quality that, like memory, can be trained and developed.)

IF SOMEONE were to tell me I had twenty years left, and ask me how I'd like to spend them, I'd reply: "Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams Ã¢â'¬Â¦ provided I can remember them.

I love dreams, even when they're nightmares, which is usually the case. My dreams are always full of the same familiar obstacles, but it doesn't matter. My amour fou—for the dreams themselves as well as the pleasure of dreaming—is the single most important thing I shared with the surrealists.

No one's really interested in other people's dreams, so I won't dwell on the subject, although I find it impossible to explain a life without talking about the part that's underground—the imaginative, the unreal.

More than anything else, surrealism was a kind of call heard by certain people everywhere—in the United States, in Germany, Spain, Yugoslavia—who, unknown to one another, were already practicing instinctive forms of irrational expression.

No matter what the cost, I wanted to stay a surrealist.

La memoria es invadida constantemente por la imaginación y el ensueño, y puesto que existe la tentación de creer en la realidad de lo imaginario, acabamos por hacer una verdad de nuestra mentira.

Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.

Mystery is the essential element of every work of art.

Pobre de aquel, que no hizo de su infancia Una leyenda.

Imagine the marvels we would experience if we believed in the things in which we don't believe.

Imagine the marvels we would experience if we believed in the things in which we don't believe.

Poeta é aquele cara que vem atrás pegando o que usamos todos os dias e jogamos fora, e quando você se vira vê uma catedral de tampinhas de garrafa.

No existen confrontación ni creación sin riesgos, sin derecho a la divergencia, a la posibilidad de estar juntos y de pensar distinto, a la posibilidad del crecimiento personal a costa de nadie, su atipicidad, su independencia, sus juegos de imaginación para poder fundar una nueva visión en un nuevo orden que le posibilite ante él mismo y ante los demás testimonear su verdad.

Un escritor es, más que nada, alguien que posee el don del asombro y sabe transmitirlo. El don de singularizar lo que ve. Porque las cosas esconden siempre algún secreto, un detalle, algo que las hace únicas y que el artista debe descubrir.

Santa Paciencia Nati, la que hay que tener cuando se te vienen estas ideas.

Y no será qué un sueño es un montón de pensamientos sueltos?