Quotes About Imagination

The clouds were so low that one could hook onto them and let oneself be carried away to a distant land, to the south, to warmer climes. There one could jump down straight into the olive groves, or at least the vineyards in Moravia, where delicious green wine is made.

Imagining 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.

Z jakich? wzgl?dów ludzie nie potrafi? wyobra?a? sobie ko?ców, nie tylko ko?ców rzeczy wielkich, ale nawet najmniejszych. Mo?e samo wyobra?anie sobie czegokolwiek wyczerpuje jako? rzeczywisto??; mo?e ona nie chce by? wyobra?ana w g?owach ludzi, mo?e chce by? wolna, jak zbuntowany nastolatek, i to w?a?nie dlatego zawsze jest inaczej, ni? mo?na to by?o sobie wyobrazi?.

The clouds were so low that one could hook onto them and let oneself be carried away to a distant land, to the south, to warmer climes.

A to, co wyobra?one, jest pierwszym stadium istnienia.

Children are soft and supple, open-minded and unpretentious.

If you think you are capable of destruction, think how you could build.

By my final years at primary school I had realised that literature was more than just an ordinary pleasure. I could tell that reading opened entirely different worlds before me...

Imagining is essentially creative; it is a bridge reconciling matter and spirit.

Our fathers had their dreams we have ours the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

Playing seems to be both disinterested and passionate at the same time disinterested in that it is not for real, and passionate in the absorption it requires.

Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest

[To Dr. Johnson:] If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

who look on the world and the universe they are born in with quite other eyes. To

It is a strange world that has lost children and mute lightning in it, and where two men can sit overlooking an abandoned mining town and talk in sadness and hope of building ships to whitewash far-off ocean skies.

There is another future quite different from it, which is the future we imagine, prompted by fears or hopes or lazy presumptions of regularity. Such projected futures are easy enough to construct in imagination, but ontologically they are shallow; they make little claim on our belief — even though they often market themselves at astonishingly high prices!

Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.

Hard is the stone but harder still, the delicate performing will which guided by a dream alone subdues and molds the hardest stone....

There's an electrical thing about movies.

Americans, like people everywhere, are in thrall to their visions of the past, rarely realizing the extent to which their understanding of history shapes behavior in the here and now. Historical understanding defines people's very sense of what is thinkable and achievable. As a result, many have lost the ability to imagine a world that is substantially different from and better than what exists today.

You transcend your own self through acting out someone else's life.

The art of what we might call, loosely, cartoons…[has been] as source of pleasure which has remained and sustained me.

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.