Quotes About Imagination

In one sense, reading is a great waste of time. In another sense, it is a great extension of time, a way for one person to live a thousand and one lives in a single lifespan, to watch the great impersonal universe at work again and again,

Although all poets aspire to be birds, no bird aspires to be a poet.

Real things are made things. Are you a real person, or did your parents make you up? Is that a real mountain or did the forces of the universe make it up? Is the virtual reality of the Internet real or did imaginative people like Steve Jobs make it up?

When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer. —Isaac Bashevis Singer

My dreams were all my own; I accounted them to nobody; They were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.

You get no writing done at all if you sit at a table with a view. You'd spent the whole time watching the birds or thinking about what you would like to be doing out of doors, instead of flogging yourself to work out of sheer boredom.

At breakfast!' said Louise in an awed voice. 'A man who can read poetry at breakfast would be capable of anything.

Children ask me sometimes what book I'd take to a desert island, but I think I couldn't go to a desert island unless it had a library.

Edward counseled that a photograph of consequence could be made from just about anything. Subject matter, in itself, was not critical. The understanding of the photographer was.

Breton, heavily influenced by Sigmund Freud, believed that art should be freed from the brake placed on creativity by the conscious mind.

If this world can exist, then anything is possible.

Either he will shield you from suffering, or He will give you unfailing strength to bear it. Be at peace then, and put aside all anxious thoughts and imaginations. ST. FRANCIS DE SALES.

Without imagination we should be lost; for only with its help can we interpret our experience, turn it into experience of an outer world, and thus make use of it in understanding what and where we are, and what we need to do.

Without imagination, we merely see or hear, and even if we see or hear that the objects of the senses are beautiful, we cannot feel that they are so. The difference is this: in feeling the beauty of objects, we enjoy not only the common, shared pleasures of the senses, but also the private pleasures of the imagination, peculiar to ourselves, and such that we have to struggle to articulate them.

Saddle your dreams before you ride em.

I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination.

Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse.

The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

Me and my needs were driving my mother away. Me and my needs retreated to my closet, disappeared into fairy tales. I started making up a world where my needs wouldn´t exist at all.

I had a love affair with books, with the characters and their worlds. Books kept me company

That's the nice thing about dreams, the way you wake up before you fall.

Pale as the moon I lie in fruitless fantasy.

She knew better: when artistry seems most elusive is when you must focus, dig deep, and force yourself to think about how to give form to an idea that seems too vague to express.