Quotes About Imagination

Totta puhuakseni en piittaa paljonkaan: hyvä tarina on hyvä tarina, tuli se mistä tahansa.

I can write about images from my own childhood for children today. I wasn't sure I could do this, but there was no way out; I had to use the images from my own childhood, because the child I was is the only child I really know.

I used to have dreams in which I was overhearing conversations I had to program. Once, I had to program two people making love. In my dream they sweated and tumbled while I sat with a cramped hand writing code. The couple went from gentle caresses to ever-widening passions, and I despaired as I tried desperately to find a way to express the act of love in the C computer language.

Environmental history is, among other things, a lengthy account of human beings over and over imagining their way into a serious pickle.

enough to excite the artist in any man.

For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.

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

I'm a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.

I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.

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

Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement. ... The conventional big-bosomed blonde is not mysterious. And what could be more obvious than the old black velvet and pearls type? The perfect 'woman of mystery' is one who is blonde, subtle and Nordic. ... Although I do not profess to be an authority on women, I fear that the perfect title [for a movie], like the perfect woman is difficult to find.

By the grace of pataphysics, two telepathic letters from the Doctor to Lord Kelvin, and some geometrical equations, we are instructed that the exception is more reliable than the rule, imagination more accurate than fact, poetry more authentic than life, that Man is God, and God is the Tangential Point Between Zero and Infinity.

JARRY: (To audience) As to the action which is about to begin, it takes place in Poland - that is to say, nowhere.

As to the action which is about to begin, it takes place in Poland – that is to say, nowhere

One writes to make a home for oneself on paper, in time, in other's minds.

Para mí solo hay un infortunio: ¡tener que vivir y no poder crear!

The sight . . . is enough to make a landsman dream for a week about death, peril and shipwreck.

All the charm of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word.

The horns of Elfland faintly blowing.

The city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built forever.

Like a dog, he hunts in dreams.

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

For I dipped into the future, as far as human eye could see, saw a vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.

Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise