Quotes About Imagination

So many people along the way,whatever it is you aspire to do, will tell you it can't be done. But it all it takes is imagination. You dream. You plan. You reach. There will be obstacles. There will doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, with belief, with confidence and trust in yourself and those around you, there no limits,

La lectura, y sobre todo la lectura novelesca, es un tipo de sueño; un sueño que no realizamos dormidos sino en un estado particular que no corresponde enteramente a estar despierto.

So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination. ..And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do no bring forth in the agitation.

There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.

The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the interstice of repetitions and commentaries; it is born and takes shape in the interval between books. It is the phenomena of the library.

I've always loved 3D. In fact, as a kid, I was exposed to 3D at an early age because my grandfather was a specialist of 3D in cinematheques. And then my cousin put it in 'Science of Sleep' with toilet paper tube cities. But he was a specialist and I always wanted to do something in 3D.

I think my imagination dictates the technologies I use. But at the same time, my imagination can be technologic. Sometimes I see a tool and I know immediately how to use it, but most of the time I use the tool for an idea I already have.

It may well be impossible for people who have lived and prospered under a given social system to imagine the point of view of those who feel it offers them nothing, and who can contemplate its destruction without any particular dismay.

Il est probablement impossible, pour des gens ayant vécu et prospéré dans un système social donné, d'imaginer le point de vue de ceux qui, n'ayant jamais rien eu à attendre de ce système, envisagent sa destruction sans frayeur particulière.

Mais seule la littérature peut vous donner cette sensation de contact avec un autre esprit humain

The map is more interesting than the territory.

impossible for people who have lived and prospered under a given social system to imagine the point of view of those who feel it offers them nothing, and who can contemplate its destruction without any particular dismay.

De eeuwigheid van de kindertijd is een korte eeuwigheid, maar dat weet hij nog niet; het landschap glijdt voorbij.

Vivre sans lecture c'est dangereux, il faut se contenter de la vie, ça peut amener à prendre des risques.

Life without anything to read is dangerous: you have to content yourself with life and that can lead you to take risks.

quizás la verdadera naturaleza del arte fuese revelar mundos soñados, mundos imposibles, y que eso era algo a lo que yo nunca me había aproximado, algo de lo que jamás me había sentido capaz; comprendí también que la ironía, lo cómico, el humor debían morir, porque el mundo futuro era el mundo de la felicidad, y allí ya no habría sitio para ellos.

Not having anything around to read is dangerous: you have to content yourself with life itself, and that can lead you to take risks.

It only confirmed what I'd always thought - that for all their education university professors can't even imagine political developments having any effect on their careers : they consider themselves untouchable.

Les livres sont indispensables. La littérature est l'oxygène de l'âme.

Le propre de la création est de rendre l'impossible non seulement réel, mais nécessaire.

Il a sauté dans un bosquet de fleurs sauvages. J'ai mis mes mains en cornet devant ma bouche, comme Tarzan, le roi de la jungle.

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.

The idea is there, locked inside, and all you have to do is remove the excess stone.