Quotes About Imagination

Neuznávám žádnou jinou pravdu, kromÄ› pravdy umÄ›lecké lži.

An ideal world is left as an exercise to the reader.

We need a language that lets us scribble and smudge and smear, not a language where you have to sit with a teacup of types balanced on your knee and make polite conversation with a strict old aunt of a compiler.

Finding any semblance of unity would require extraordinary pattern-recognition skills, a keen imagination, and a hearty sense of humor

Children are born pantheists. They see reality unshaped by culture or language. The whole world seems divine to them, full of mystery and power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars only came out once every thousand years. No one would sleep that night, of course. The world would become religious overnight. We would be ecstatic, delirious, made rapturous by the glory of God. Instead the stars come out every night, and we watch television.

He liked to say that what makes literature is "inventing truly from honestly acquired knowledge, so that what you make up is truer than what you might remember.

Think of how strange the colours and sights of the world would be for a blind man abruptly made to see or a man deaf from birth hearing the playing of a hundred flutes

Don't think of it as a lie, think of it as the truth under imaginary circumstances.

Well, it didn't feel very good to have half of our mystery spoiled for us. We found out that Barry and Eagle Eye had made it up between them that Eagle Eye was to put on a wig and do what he had done, just to give us an adventure in that Indian cemetery.

What you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass.

Novelists and poets are the landscape artists and portrait painters; academic writers are the people with big paint sprayers who repaint your basement.

Put your "inner writer" back on its leash and give it a chew toy.

Who is to say where you are?' Mirkady asked lightly. 'Some say there is a different world for every story ever told or untold, that there is no such thing as the here and now, only the unfolding of infinite possibilities, all of them real in some place or other.' 'In which case,' Dwarmo said, vastly amused, 'there is no such thing as a mistake.

Well, I think that - I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.

Art does not reproduce what we see rather, it makes us see.

Art does not reproduce what we see. It makes us see.

Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible.

Color has got me. I no longer need to chase after it. It has got me for ever. I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour.

Art does not reproduce what is visible, it makes things visible.

Art does not reproduce the visible rather, it makes visible.

Art does not render what is visible, but renders visible.

Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.

Kunst gibt nicht das Sichtbare wieder, sondern Kunst macht sichtbar.