Quotes About Imagination

Seldom happier than when I'm on my own, lost in a book.

He was never lonely, not with his books for company. Books never complained, never asked awkward questions.

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If you could not picture what people endured, how could you figure out what drove them to crime?

Advice to Young Poets Never pretend to be a unicorn by sticking a plunger on your head.

Photographers, like painters, seldom retire.

the picture in order to move us must never merely remind us of life, but must acquire a life of its own, precisely in order to reflect life'.

I don't write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow.

Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.

What would happen to the dream if its dreamer was no more?

And it's often better to read first-rate science fiction than second-rate science – it's far more stimulating, and perhaps no more likely to be wrong.) Indeed

Martin L. Shoemaker

When we read a book, these specialized cells respond as if we are actually doing what the book character is doing."5

Children have generative power. They create meaning as they busily connect with whatever is happening. But grown-ups often forget that ability. They tend to lose that playful, adventuresome, creative generativity by which they can ask themselves: What's worth doing today?

At the same time, she often felt lonely. Books became her refuge. When she was unhappy, she withdrew with her books and shut herself off from the rest of the world. This is what she had already done as a child. With the help of books she could create a world of her own, where she could do as she wanted, and where no one could bother her.

I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders.

Gli uomini si vestono di nero e di grigio. Qualcuno osa con colori autunnali e camicie variopinte. E' il problema degli uomini: vogliono essere presi sul serio, quindi pensano di dover far credere che sono privi di fantasia.

Essere desiderati non è semplice. Non bisogna farsi illusioni: non siamo mai noi a essere desiderati, ma quello che l'altro immagina di noi e, spesso, quello che potrà servirgli a giustificare le proprie scelte esistenziali.

In a way, everyone was a Don Quixote, their heads alive with plots and characters, even if they didn't act on them directly.

Most people just see a blank page and hear nothing. I see a universe waiting to be born and hear voices that want to speak...

I've seen many, many movies over the years, and there are only a few that suddenly inspire you so much that you want to continue to make films.

Movies touch our hearts and awaken our vision, and change the way we see things. They take us to other places, they open doors and minds. Movies are the memories of our life time, we need to keep them alive.

I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears.

And the nearest season is imagination.