Quotes About Imagination

Ferguson was not yet five years old, but he already understood that the world consisted of two realms, the visible and the invisible, and that the things he couldn't see were often more real than the things he could.

A dream, a wild dream of removing ourselves from the cares and sorrows of this miserable world and creating a world of our own. A long shot, yes, but who's to say it can't happen?

Everyone is broken-hearted except for the drastically unimaginative

I rationalized that there are only so many notes and therefore only so many combination of notes, so it stood to reason that there are so many songs.

I fuck like an overturned guppy.

Jaguar model names sound like rockets: XJ–S, XJ8, E–Type. Hondas sound like cars designed by pacifists and humanitarian diplomats. The Accord, Civic, Insight.

When I was ten, I spent a long night burrowed under my comforter, cuddled up with Funshine Bear, who, filled with a foamy enigmatic sense of language and a Bloomian dogmatism, was the most literary of the Care Bears and my harshest critic.

It's funny I want to write a poem.

The real question is not where do ideas come from but where do they go.

Empathy is the act of coming to experience the world as you think someone else does.

If you can imagine an alternative world, then you can see things through someone else's eyes, even if their sense of reality doesn't match your own. This makes possible perspective-taking, empathy, and much else.

The impossibility of failure is one of the weaknesses of daydreaming.

the most common pleasures involve experiences that don't really exist, as when we read novels, go to movies, play video games, and daydream. They are pleasures of the imagination. This is how we spend most of our time—Netflix without the chill.

Our altruism and kindness are grounded in the capacity to imagine the world as others see it. But so is our cruelty and manipulation. Another name for this capacity to suss out the minds of others is "Machiavellian intelligence," and the name captures the dark side of this power.

life just creeps along, with long spans where nothing much happens... Stories solve this problem—as the critic Clive James once put it, 'Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.' This is one reason why Friends is more interesting than your friends.

Cosmology and neuropsychology have absurdity in common. The raw facts are strange beyond imagination.

Painting from nature is not copying the object it is realizing one's sensations.

The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed [in a painting], will set off a revolution.

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.

I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.

We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.

It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.