Quotes About Imagination

What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists

For all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings...

The imagination made us human, but being human, becoming more human, is a greater burden than we imagined. We have no choice but to imagine ourselves more human than we are.

Hitch era un lento stomaco antropomorfo. Il sarcasmo era acido cloridrico, l'immaginazione un gioco di enzimi, Hitch digeriva le forme di vita circostanti, proteine e vitamine per il corpus delle sue opere.

Even the worst outcome we can imagine will ultimately benefit us. It is because of that law of favor-ability that the Universe is able to continue and we are able to bring about the fruition of our plans.

It is true that we are in charge of our imaginations, and by using them to imagine wonderful futures for ourselves, and by acting on that basis, it will follow, unerringly, that for us, it will be so.

But like most dreams, they end and you've got to wake up the next morning.

If you'd asked me at age eight to describe God, I would have said that He was 100 feet tall and had long white hair and a gray robe. He was looking down only at me, and His book was always open so He could keep score. As a result of what He saw with me, God was frowning.

Many great writers address audiences who do not exist; to address passionately and sometimes with very great wisdom people who do not exist has this advantage—that there will always be a group of people who, seeing a man shouting apparently at somebody or other, and seeing nobody else in sight, will think it is they who are being addressed.

There is nothing contemptible about an intoxicated man (if it is nothing more than a bookful of words or a roomful of notes that he has got drunk on).

No restless, quick, flame-like ego is imagined for the inside of it. It has no inside.

Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art.

What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out.

You are creative, whoever you are. Respect your own creativity and respect the creativity and creative space of other people.

A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it. But it is unbecoming in an artist to talk about inspiration; that is the reader's business.

To leap over the wall of self, to look through another's eyes--this is valuable experience, which literature offers.

Imagination, realm of enchantment!- which the most beneficent of beings bestowed upon man to console him for reality- I must quit you now.

When I have had enough of tears and love, I turn to some poet, and set out again for a new world.

No es en la cama donde una madre, embriagada de felicidad por el nacimiento de su hijo, olvida sus dolores? Es ahí donde los fantásticos gozos, producto de la imaginación y la esperanza, vienen a agitarnos. En fin, es en este mueble delicioso que olvidamos durante la mitad de la vida los pesares de la otra mitad

Who can explain the reasons for a daydream?

Mi biblioteca, ya que es preciso decíroslo, se compone de novelas... sí, de novelas... y de algunos poetas escogidos. Como si no tuviese bastante con mis propios males, comparto aún voluntariamente los de mil personajes imaginarios, y los siento tan vivamente como los míos.

Y ese es mi gran problema, paso mucho más tiempo imaginando las cosas que viviéndolas.

Nada querría más que estirar este rato delicioso como un cuento sin principio ni fin, hasta que el mundo fuera otra vez simple y no hubiera tantos cañones apuntándome...

If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands, or were able to draw with their feet and produce the works which men do, horses would draw the forms of gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make the gods' bodies the same shape as their own.