Quotes About Imagination

My worryingly paradoxical thought process could be summarized thus: Thank God I don't believe in the secret rulers of the world. Imagine what the secret rulers of the world might do to me if I did!

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it

Art is the god you have not seen.

When we pray, we must begin by conceiving God in full and vigorous images, but we must go on to acknowledge the inadequacy of them and to adhere nakedly to the imageless truth of God.

God has given me a mule-like stubbornness to stick with a difficult problem and the intuitive powers to conceptualize complex hypothetical situations in my mind.

When one works and imagines and dreams of nothing else than the search for answers that God has posed, it is difficult to be so still.

God thinks in the geniusses, he dreams in the poets and slumbers in the rest of humanity.

The best thing about being God would be making the heads.

Perhaps we are all too small-minded to glimpse creation, even out little corner of it.

God wove a web of loveliness, Of clouds and stars and birds, But made not anything at all, So beautiful as words.

No one knows the nature of God, or even if God exists. In a sense, all of our religions are literary works of the imagination.

God always punishes us for what we can't imagine.

God, children know something they can't tell; they like Red Riding Hood and the wolf in bed!

Ask what Infinity might produce and the only answer possible was, "Anything." Any good, any evil; any god, any devil.

If 18,000 gods have been invented then it is likely that god 18,001 is also invented.

We haven't yet got eyes that can gaze into all the splendour that God has created, but we shall get them one day; and that will be the finest fairy tale of all, for we shall be in it ourselves.

You've been playing gods-and-witches again, that's clear.

God Almighty Himself must have been hilarious when human beings so mingled iron and water and fire as to make a railroad train!

Heaven is beyond our imagination . . . . At our most creative moment, at our deepest thought, at our highest level, we still cannot fathom eternity.

God is just another artist, like me.

If we insist upon trying to imagine Him, we end with an idol, made not with hands but with thoughts; and an idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.

Do not be content with an imaginary god.

Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt - marvellous error! - That it was God I had here inside my heart.

I think about music in the way that I heard music as a kid - like, Oh my god, there's this weird rubbery ball of undulating things.