Quotes About Imagination

If we listen, the air is heavy with poems, ripe for plucking.

I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.

The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness

I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.

Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.

Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.

If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.

That's what fiction is about, isn't it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence?

Everything great that has ever happened to humanity has begun as a single thought in someone's mind, and if anyone of us is capable of such a thought, then all of us has the same capacity, capability, because we're all the same.

Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.

Il te restera toujours tes rèves pour réinventer le monde que l'on t'a confisqué.

An aurora borealis rises over festive orchards; the branches of the trees immediately begin to bud, to blossom, to bend under the weight of their fruit. The child runs through the wild grass, heading for the Wall. It collapses like a big cardboard box, broadening the horizon and exorcising the fields, which extend over the plains as far as the eye can see...Run...And the child runs, laughing all the while, his arms spread out like a bird's wings.

Thy can take everything you own --your property, your best years, all your joys, all your good works, everything down to your last shirt --but you'll always have your dreams, so you can reinvent your stolen world.

They can take everything you own --your property, your best years, all your joys, all your good works, everything down to your last shirt-- but you'll always have your dreams, so you can reinvent your stolen world.

VÅ¡echno ti m?žou vzít: majetek, nejkrásnÄ›jÅ¡í léta, vÅ¡echny radosti, vÅ¡echny zásluhy, i poslední koÅ¡ili - nikdo ti ale nem?že vzít tvé sny, a s nimi budeÅ¡ moci znovu vytvoÃ…â"¢it svÄ›t, o který tÄ› pÃ…â"¢ipravili.

On peut tout te prendre ; tes biens, tes plus belles années, l'ensemble de tes joies, et l'ensemble de tes mérites, jusqu'à ta dernière chemise – il te restera toujours tes rêves pour réinventer le monde que l'on t'a confisqué.

fasciné par les mots... ces assemblages de caractères morts qui, pris entre une majuscule et un point, ressuscitaient d'un coup, devenaient phrases, devenaient foules, devenaient force et esprit. Tout

Poverty, I decided, had nothing to do with fate; it was simply a state of mind. We accept the world as we see it; we believe it to be immutable. But if we look away from the misery even for a moment, another path appears, bright as a new penny, and so mysterious that we begin to dream...

qui rêve trop oublie de vivre" p:9

Bad weather doesn't give you ideas about going to visit a flower garden.

he and Smokey would exchange pickup lines and laments and rhymes until they had possible stanzas for a new song. One came up with "You got a smile so bright / you know you coulda been a candle." The other responded with "I'm holding you so tight / You know you coulda been a handle." And eventually they had composed "The Way You Do the Things You Do.

Trying to imagine E. M. Forster , who found Ulysses indecorous, at a London performance of Lenny Bruce —to which in fact he was once taken. Trying to imagine the same for a time-transported Nathaniel Hawthorne —who during his first visit to Europe was even shocked by the profusion of naked statues.

Have I ever said that Turner once actually had himself lashed to the mast of a ship, to be able to later do a painting of a storm? Which has never failed to remind me of the scene in which Odysseus does the identical thing, of course, so that he can listen to the Sirens singing but will stay put.

if one wishes to see a cat badly enough, one will doubtless see one.