Quotes About Imagination

Niki recalled Nooran working on the embroidery as she scribbled or scrawled, both seated atop her bed. Faced with the prospect of IIMC, what would Nooran do? When the world darkened, Nooran turned to the bagh. When it dazzled, she embroidered some more. Whatever it threw at her, she seized it and wrote her own narrative.

At the king's landing stage, the heads of stone beasts swim in the water, and so do their own shapes, the shapes of gentleman, their forms broken by ripples, and the everted queen flickering like a flame in a glass; around them, the dance of mild afternoon sunshine, and a flood of birdsong.

The most beautiful images are often the least honest.

What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?

I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

Your reality, isn't restricted by this cell we live in. If you read something, if you study something, you transcend any cell you're inside of

Y ella no tiene frío? —No, no se acuerda del frío, está como en otro mundo, ensimismada dibujando a la pantera. —Si está ensimismada no está en otro mundo. Ésa es una contradicción. —Sí, es cierto, ella está ensimismada, metida en el mundo que tiene adentro de ella misma, y que apenas si lo está empezando a descubrir.

Do you like reading? It's the best thing that can happen to you in life. Writing has other implications.

La musica doveva avere il volto di una donna da seddure. Chiudevo gli occhi per immaginarla, per dare colore ai suoi capelli e ai suoi occhi, ma compresi che finché dal mio sax fossero usciti soltanto ragli d' asino, quella ragazza non sarebbe mai esistita.

La cultura, señores! Y dentro de ella, la más sublime de las artes. La poesía.

Durante la infancia yo confundía estos parajes terrenales con los pliegues de mi propio cerebro y desde aquellos días de inocencia no me ha abandonado la idea de que la vida de los hombres no es sino un nudo de aromas que se va deshaciendo ante la muerte.

María Luisa Bombal

Lo que diferencia a los géneros literarios unos de otros, es la necesidad de la vida que les ha dado origen. No se escribe ciertamente por necesidades literarias, sino por necesidad que la vida tiene de expresarse.

We live because of the dreams.

You receive a great number of rewards as soon as you begin creating something you dream of deep within your soul.

The ages of life can be evoked independently from the progression that advancing age implies, by means of anticipation, which lays out a future, or memory, which recreates the past, and in any case, by letting the imagination play with time.

we know perfectly well that all was not paradise at the time of our earliest loves; what we wish for, even in knowing the vanity of this wish, is to return there now with our emptiness, our desires, and our imagination.

Having fun isn't hard When you've got a library card.

Having fun isn't hard when you've got a library card.

Having fun is easy when you have a library cards!

No beach today!" D.W. announced the next morning. "I had a dream about Buster," said Arthur. "Why don't you write him a postcard?" Mother suggested. "Why don't we all write postcards?" said Father. "But what do we write about?" said D.W. "We haven't done anything yet!

Great art picks up where nature ends.

My father was something of a rainbow-chaser.