Quotes About Imagination

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She's neglected and lonely, and like any little kid left on her own too much, she finds ways to amuse herself.

I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.

There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.

I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining.

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

There can be a "boom" in petroleum or wheat, but there can't be a boom in the novel and less still in poetry.

If I get reincarnated…, I wanna become a clam.

I have tried to put the real at the service of the unreal.

It is nature also who orders us to obey the gifts she has given us. Mine have led me to dreams; I submitted to the torments of imagination and the surprises she gave me under my pencil; but I directed and led those surprises in accordance with the laws of the organism of art which I know, which I feel, with the single goal of producing in the spectator, by sudden attraction, the whole evocation, and the whole enticement of the uncertain within the confines of thought.

Poets aren't very useful Because they aren't consumeful or very produceful.

I dreamt that my hair was kempt. Then I dreamt that my true love unkempt it.

It's my own dream, I dreamt it, I dreamt that my hair was kempt, then I dremat my true love unkempt it.

ADVENTURES OF ISABEL Isabel

In leaving something unsaid the beholder is given a chance to complete the idea and thus a great masterpiece irresistibly rivets your attention until you seem to become actually a part of it. A vacuum is there for you to enter and fill up the full measure of your aesthetic emotion.

Uniformity of design was considered as fatal to the freshness of imagination.

Oh, Star Maker, even if you destroy me, I must praise you. Even if you torture my dearest. Even if you torment and waste all your lovely worlds, the little figments of your imagination, yet I must praise you. For if you do so, it must be right. In me it would be wrong, but in you it must be right.

We of today must conceive our relation to the rest of the universe as best we can; and even if our images must seem fantastic to future men, they may none the less serve their purpose today.

Somehow, then, I must help you to feel not only the vastness of time and space, but also the vast diversity of mind's possible modes. But this I can only hint to you, since so much lies wholly beyond the range of your imagination.

That is why fiction existed, as a way to look at the world without being broken by it.

this was why fiction existed, as a way to look at the world without being broken by it.

If people could read the same books, they would inhabit the same world.

Imagination is essentially creative; it is a bridge reconciling matter and spirit. Especially when it is done intensely and often. Then the image turns into a drop of matter, and joins the currents of life. Sometimes along the way something in it gets distorted and changes. Therefore, if they are strong enough, all human desires come true — but not always entirely as expected.

checks the sick soggy plaster with his finger, the wet paint leaving a mark on his skin. The stains on the walls make maps of countries he can't recognize, he can't name.