Quotes About Imagination

Those who read many books are like the eaters of hashish. They live in a dream. The subtle poison that penetrates their brain renders them insensible to the real world and makes them prey of terrible or de lightful phantoms. Books are the opium of the Occident. They devour us. A day is coming on which we shall all be keepers of libraries, and that will be the end.

To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.

Mexico is the most surrealist country in the world.

The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood.

The man who can't visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.

The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires.

Undoubtedly the novel has means of its own—language not the image is its material, its intimate effect on the isolated reader is not the same as that of a film on the crowd in a darkened cinema—but precisely for these reasons the differences in aesthetic structure make the search for equivalents an even more delicate matter, and thus they require all the more power of invention and imagination from the film-maker who is truly attempting a resemblance. One

Reality is not art, but a realist art is one that can create an integral aesthetic of reality.

The sound of a windshield-wiper against a page of Diderot is all it took to turn it into Racinian dialogue

What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.

There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state.

speaking of Ann Radcliffe) A work of art worthy of the name is one which gives us back the freshness of the emotions of childhood.

The mind of the dreaming man is fully satisfied with whatever happens to it. The agonizing question of possibility does not arise.

Everything leads us to believe that there exists a spot in the mind from which life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future, the high and the low, the communicable and the incommunicable will cease to appear contradictory.

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams.

The truth can only be seen when you close your eyes to reason and surrender yourself to dreams.

I would like to sleep, in order to surrender myself to the dreamers, the way I surrender myself to those who read me with eyes wide open; in order to stop imposing, in this realm, the conscious rhythm of my thought.

La vie est autre que ce qu'on écrit.

Vous ne pourrez jamais voir cette étoile comme je la voyais. Vous ne comprenez pas : elle est comme le cÅ"ur d'une fleur sans cÅ"ur.

Objects seen in dreams should be manufactured and put on sale.

The imaginary is that which tends to become real.

The exquisite corpse will drink the young wine. (Le cadavre exquis boira le vin nouveau.)

As I go on my way I may happen to fall from a precipice or be pursued by stones, but each time, I beg you to believe, it's only a reality.

Asimismo, he podido desear ver construir un objeto muy especial que respondiese a una fantasía poética cualquiera.