Quotes About Imagination

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun

The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.

If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.

To draw, you must close your eyes and sing

Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth.

Pablo Picasso, last words

If every word introduces a new concept, the simple phrase "all that which does not exist" is sufficient to make everything that does not exist, exist.

Soñó con duelos de cuchillos cebolleros, librados contra japoneses practicantes de kung-fu, que mañosamente portaban sombreros de charro para desconcertarlo.

What they don't know is that we all belong to the places we've never even been before. If there's any kind of legitimate nostalgia, it's for everything we've never seen, the women we've never slept with, never dreamed of, the friends we haven't made, the books we haven't read, all that food steaming in the pots we've never eaten out of. That's the only kind of real nostalgia there is.

If you could trade out and be, say, Godzilla, wouldn't you jump on it, dear? Couldn't you then forgo your bad haircuts and dour wardrobe and moping ways and begin to have some fun, as Godzilla? What might we have to give you to induce you to become Godzilla and leave us alone? Shall we await your answer?

The moments of our life are not expendable, And the [possible] circumstances of death are beyond imagination. If you do not achieve an undaunted confident security now, What point is there in your being alive, O living creature?

A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.

I love science fiction.

Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surprise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind more securely." —ALBERT EINSTEIN, GERMAN THEORETICAL PHYSICIST

To bring something into the physical world requires focusing not on what we see, but on what we want to see.

Like sometimes when you go to a movie and you get so lost in the story that when you're walking out of the theater you can't remember anything at all about your own life.

I wonder what he sees, a chapter from a book I have never read.

Freedom is where you find it," my father often said when I complained. Papa had a way of seeing the world exactly as he wanted. "The greatest prison is in our mind.

A veces la vida que imaginamos no dura tanto como creemos.