Quotes About Imagination

Art is the proper task of life.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

Life must be lived as play.

Life is never easy for those who dream.

Life will only last so long, but your dreams will go on forever.

Only your imagination sets the limits for what you can do with your life, make sure that every moment counts.

What Takes Us to the PAST is the MEMORY.... What takes Us to the FUTURE is DREAM......

We miraculously become what we read. The mind is the sculptor of ones-self, amazingly creating the essence of who we are.

The limit is not in the sky. The limit is in the mind.

Better to have spent a life reaching for a dream that never came true, than to have slept through a life that never had a dream.

Forgive me for not being there, my mind has found a place called else where.

Keep the dream alive: Hit the snooze button...

Don't let anyone change the direction of your dreams. Be confident, and make the life you've imagined for yourself a reality.

de dirección, como un pez en un agua transparente. La belleza no es una especie de superlativo de lo que imaginamos, como un tipo abstracto que tenemos ante los ojos, sino al contrario, un tipo nuevo, imposible de imaginar, y que la realidad nos presenta.

Bir sanatç? dünyay? sadece bir hayalin tasvirinde kullan?lacak bir malzeme olarak görür.

Before getting into the carriage I had composed the seascape for which I was going to look out, which I had hoped to see with the 'sun radiant' upon it, and which at Balbec I could distinguish only in too fragmentary a form, broken by so many vulgar intromissions that had no place in my dream, bathers, dressing-boxes, pleasure yachts.

un val neobi?nuit de oameni ie?i?i la plimbare umplea înc? str?zile din Combray, înnegrindu-le parc?. ?i în fa?a fiec?rei case… servitorii sau chiar st?pînii, a?eza?i ?i privind, tiveau parc? pragurile cu o broderie capricioas? ?i întunecat? ca aceea pe care o deseneaz? algele ?i scoicile zvîrlite pe malul m?rii de un flux puternic.

If we press for a definition of what their admirers mean by the epithet, we shall find that it is generally applied to some unusual picture of a familiar object, a picture different from those that we are accustomed to see, unusual and yet true to nature, and for that reason doubly impressive to us because it startles us, makes us emerge from our habits and at the same time brings us back to ourselves by recalling to us an earlier impression.

She said merely that it was a delightful pastime because, even if the flowers that sprang from the brush were nothing wonderful, at least the work made you live in the company of real flowers, of the beauty of which, especially when you were obliged to study them closely in order to draw them, you could never grow tired.

Even in his most artificial creations, nature is the material upon which man has to work.