Quotes About Imagination

Veo las cosas tal como son. Hace muchos años que renuncié a la fantasía. No he olvidado nunca que un exceso de imaginación puede conducir a los hombres a la locura.

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.

Fear builds its phantoms which are more fearsome than fear itself

Don't ask me for my resume -it's a piece of paper that won't help you or your business. Instead, ask me for unique ideas - and with that, I will give you plenty." ~ Jaxi West

1. The brain uses images to help the conscious mind understand.

could almost hear piped-in

I'd like to have the kind of house someday where a carousel horse wouldn't be out of place in the living room.

In dreams begin possibilities.

Fictional characters soon take on a life of their own. They run with the bit between their teeth.

Ideas arise independently from the same mysterious source.

Probably a good idea, let me know how it ends" "I already know how it ends" "You read the ending first?" "I always read the ending before I commit to the whole book." "If you know how it ends, why read the book?" "I don't read for the ending. I read for the story".

I think about going away myself, living a whole different life, like I could exist on a different planet and this life wouldn't know about me, and I wouldn't know about it.

Don't make the mistake of believing it's enough to reproduce the realities of life.... The object of art is to give life a shape, and to do it by every conceivable artifice.

Inspiration is a trick that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

Art is a fruit that grows in man.

I allow myself to be guided by the work which is in the process of being born, I have confidence in it (automatic painting). I do not think about it. The forms arrive pleasant, or strange, hostile, inexplicable, mute, or drowsy. They are born from themselves. It seems to me as if all I do is move my hands.

Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our own natural tendency which is to anticipate reality by imagining it, or to flee from it by idealizing it. That is why we shall never inhabit true fiction; we are condemned to the imaginary and nostalgia for the future.

Imagination can be your best friend, you know.

The only truly happy people are children and the creative minority.

All books are escapism. They are life with the boring bits cut out.

I never had the financial means that the media said I had. I laugh when I hear the amounts, $400 million, $800 million. Where do they get this imagination?

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.