Quotes About Imagination

Reframing is also the pivotal element in the creative process: it is the ability to put a commonplace event in a new frame that is useful or enjoyable.

Next, go back to the first bad image. Not the life-size one but the little one and push it off into the distance and suddenly pull up the new picture in its place and then make it life-size. Look at how you want to be, and you end up replacing your fears with your desires.

When people start asking good questions, they make good pictures inside their heads. If you make good pictures, you will get good feelings. Then life becomes something that you feel more enthusiasm for.

the images of Revelation are symbols with evocative power inviting imaginative participation in the book's symbolic world. But they do not work merely by painting verbal pictures. Their precise literary composition is always essential to their meaning. In the first place, the astonishingly meticulous composition of the book creates a complex network of literary cross-references, parallels, contrasts, which inform the meaning of the parts and the whole.

Nothing is as real as dreams.

All ideas are second-hand, consciously or unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources, and daily used by the garnerer with a pride and satisfaction born of the superstition that he originated them.

I'll affect you slowly as if you were having a picnic in a dream. There will be no ants. It won't rain.

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

The Right Honourable Gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.

Literature offered a safe circumscribed outlet for sadness.

A storyteller, a displaced poet, will absorb reading differently.

The objectivity we sought was the power to recollect — if not in tranquillity, at least in 'dispassion' and this power is rarely granted except to the imaginative writer.

Yes, and this is mine. (Baldrick produces a single scruffy piece of paper.) My magnificent octopus.

never wrote a tune in my life," he said.137 "What do you mean by that?" asked Robins, surprised. "Those tunes are all in the air," Monroe replied. "I just happened to be the first one to pick them out.

I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality - you're told about tooth fairies and Father Christmas and things.

Books appear to be the most immediate instruments of speculative delight.

Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract.

Sentences that begin with 'You' are probably not true. For instance, when I write: "You are a pet human named Morlock being disciplined by your master, a Beowulf cluster of FreeBSD 22.0 servers in the year 2052. Last week you tried to escape by digging a hole under the perimeter, which means this week you may be put to sleep for being a renegade human." That's not true, at least not yet.

We have lost our faith in the powers that brought us this far—the powers of will, imagination, effort, and community.

When asked what good the trait does, synesthetes immediately answer, "It helps you remember." They do have measurably high memories

A place makes a deep impression on you when you're young. It lives with you. It's like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination.

Ideeën zijn de motor van vooruitgang.

She was an artist. She held opposites in her mind.

There might be symphonies of perfume, Mozarts of musk. Novelists might construct nasal narratives, versifiers sonnets of scent. Sculpture would entail subtleties of shape that only fingers trained through hundreds of millions of years of tactile evolution could discriminate.