Quotes About Imagination

The person who has a highly evolved will they think, they build an image and they focus on that image."? Bob Proctor

Everyone or almost all eventually evade reality and we invent what we need.

If you cast doubt aside then you go beyond where even you could have imagined ....

God is only as far as we imagine Him to be. It's our fleshly desire not to run to Him that is ultimately our downfall.

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

Anything is bearable if you can make a story out of it.

Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how they lived, what they felt.

I love reading about history. Sometimes, I feel I was born in the wrong era. There was more creativity in the air when people were still discovering new worlds.

There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.

I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.

Writing for children is as easy as describing the history of the Byzantium in three words.

The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.

It's a landscape that has to be seen to be believed. And, as I say on occasion, it may have to be believed in order to be seen.

I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history

Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.

It is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

The history of literature is the history of the human mind.

The aim of the historian, like that of the artist, is to enlarge our picture of the world, to give us a new way of looking at things.

History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt.

To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.

My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.

Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude of places nobody cares to visit, as they call geography.

History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.