Quotes About Imagination

Kim Stanley Robinson

Cinnamon, raw sienna, Persian orange, sunburn, camel, rust brown, Sahara, chrome orange…they began to laugh. Nothing was quite right. "We'll call it Martian orange," Maya decided.

There are going to be some guaranteed catastrophes bearing down on you that you aren't going to be able to avoid (i.e. death), so evolution has kindly given you a strategically located mental blind spot, an inability to imagine future disasters in any way you can really believe, so that you can continue to function, as pointless as that may be...Useful. Except when disastrously bad.

The virus is rewriting our imaginations. What felt impossible has become thinkable. We're getting a different sense of our place in history. We know we're entering a new world, a new era. We seem to be learning our way into a new structure of feeling.

Ideology, n. An imaginary relationship to a real situation. In common usage, what the other person has, especially when systematically distorting the facts.

The tiny imaginary audience inside his head did not exist; no one watches our life movies.

So. Our little pearl of warmth, our spinning orrery of lives, our island, our beloved solar system, our hearth and home, tight and burnished in the warmth of the sun—and then—these starships we are making out of Nix. We will send them to the stars, they will be like dandelion seeds, floating away on a breeze. Very beautiful. We will never see them again.

When you had the world and your body as canvases, why deal in squares of wallpaper?

It's like being Calvin and watching Hobbes turn back into a stuffed doll.

tragedy of the time horizon. Meaning we can't imagine the suffering of the people of the future, so nothing much

People have ideas. They live in their ideas, do you understand? And those ideas, whatever they happen to be, make all the difference.

the crowds just background tapestries for you to play your life against, lurid backdrops providing a fake sense of drama to help you imagine you're doing more than you would be if you were in some sleepy village or Denver or really anywhere else. New

Art is not truth. Art is a lie that enables us to realize the truth. said Picasso

Entre todo lo bello que trae consigo ser joven, los sueños son lo más importante

Thoughts, ideas, and suggestions.

I thought to myself how much more welcome a faculty the imagination would be if we could tell when it was at work and when not.

As far back as she could remember, she had gone in for day-dreams about what clothes, jewellery and the like she would wear if, like her admired and adored Marie Antoinette, she were somehow to find herself facing public execution. A country GP's visit was hardly on that scale, but the principle held.

No indeed, poems were not made out of intentions.

quizá incluso tenía miedo— a especular.

De todas las ideas concebidas por la mente humana, desde los unicornios y las gárgolas a la bomba de hidrógeno, la más fantástica es, quizá, la del agujero negro:

If you looked for demons around every corner, you would eventually find them. Real or imagined.

What have you done to your eyes? They're all red. Have you been crying?' 'No,' he answers, laughing, 'but I've been staring into my fairy tales, where the sun is very strong.

The dark monsters out there would suck me up when night came on, and they would carry me far across the sea and through strange lands where no humans lived.

Summer is the time for dreaming, and then you have to stop. But some people go on dreaming all their lives, and cannot change.