Quotes About Imagination

Willed introversion, in fact, is one of the classic implements of creative genius and can be employed as a deliberate device.

Art brings out the grand lines of nature. Antione Bourdelle

If a being from another world were to ask you, How can I learn what it's like to be human? a good answer would be, Study mythology.

Mythology is the song. It is the song of the imagination, inspired by the energies of the body.

The Fantasy is a reassurance - a promise that the peace of Paradise... is not to be lost...

Dream is the personalized myth, myth is the depoersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamics of the psyche.

Myths are public dreams; dreams are private myths.

Now that we moderns have stripped the earth of its mystery—have made, in Saul Bellow's description, "a housecleaning of belief"—how are our imaginations to be nourished? By Hollywood and made-for-TV movies?

a curious characteristic of our unformed species that we live and model our lives through acts of make-believe.

Mythology is not invented rationally; mythology cannot be rationally understood.

Pluralism makes a unifying myth impossible. But if we cannot reinstate such a mythology we can, at least, return to the source from which mythology springs - the creative imagination.

The symbols of mythology are not manufactured; they cannot be ordered, invented, or permanently suppressed. They are spontaneous productions of the psyche.

Mythology is the song. Its the flight of the imagination inspired by the energy of the body.

doing nothing often leads to the very best of something

But now I am six. And I'm clever as clever. And now I think I'll stay six now forever and ever.

There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.

No one can write a book which children will like, unless he write it for himself first. – A. A. Milne

I do remember,' explained Christopher Robin, 'only Pooh doesn't very well, so that's why he likes having it told to him again. Because then it's a real story and not just a remembering.

All the best stories are but one story in reality--the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

She told me about rolling hills covered with cornfields and treeless miles of land without water. I dreamt of cornfields dotted with yellow rosebushes

I want to explore what it means to be human, but not just the most extreme elements of humanity. The quiet moments. The times when the world isn't exploding, but we're still trying to determine who we are and how can we make this thing called life work. And I want to do it while writing about space squids and moon-eating monster gods.

It was one of the marks of sentience, the ability to distinguish reality from fantasy and still indulge in fantasy. In other words: I lied, therefore I thought.

Legends are always better from afar.

Dreams are rarely founded on truth.