Quotes About Imagination

Esos recuerdos no eran simples; cada imagen visual estaba ligada a sensaciones musculares, térmicas, etcétera.

L'esecutore di un'impresa atroce immagini di averla già compiuta, si imponga un futuro che sia irrevocabile come il passato

I have always imagined that Heaven would be some kind of library.

Yes, Latinos dream more. When you live in poverty, when your president is imposed upon you, when they kill someone and no one gets indicted, and when only a few get rich, of course you dream more. It's no coincidence that magic realism happens in Latin America, because for us dreams and aspirations are part of life.

Aku membayangkan bahwa surga itu merupakan sebuah perkampungan sederhana yang di tengahnya terdapat perpustakaan besar dan berisi buku-buku dari berbagai zaman dan bangsa.

As a boy, I used to marvel that the letters in a closed book did not get scrambled and lost overnight.

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream

It's the only dish I serve my craziness for color in.

The way in which we see things can hardly be distinguished from the way in which we wish to see them.

Aurore sketched—it would always be her pleasure—and scribbled—it was her passion...

It was the stuff of Alexandre Dumas' novels as it would be of George Sand's; Romanticism had some roots in reality.

I thought of my mother late that night, after leaving Dorothy, as I followed the moon's path back home across the Moose River. My mother, maybe she was in that moon's light. I didn't know any more, but when I was younger, Iuse to imagine that she was. I'd talk to the moon some nights, and I knew my mother listened. I haven't done that in a long time, me. -Through Black Spruce, Joseph Boyden, ch 13, pg 119

That story I loved so much as a child has become all too real to me now. But I'm not the boy in that old story who could run forever without tiring. I don't have a bow and arrow. No weapons at all.

Writer's block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You have to be reckless when writing. Be as crazy as your conscience allows.

Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another.

If you want to change the world, you have to change the metaphor.

Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another. The function of the artist is the mythologization of the environment and the world.

If myth is translated into literal fact, then myth is a lie. But if you read it as a reflection of the world inside you, then it's true. Myth is the penultimate truth.

facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter,' as my friend the late Maya Deren once phrased the mystery.

Lo que el creativo saca a la luz es algo que estaba esperando ser extraído en todos.

The first function of mythology is showing everything as a metaphor to transcendence.

Hay más realidad en una imagen que en una palabra

Some things die after they born, others born after they die. myths are public dreams, dreams are privet myths...

In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, unrecognized, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dream.