Quotes About Imagination

creative output depends on creative input.

My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world.

Finch refused to discuss these ideas and didn't brook criticism from his colleagues, much less from a mere photographer. What must it be like, Guilford wondered, to have such a baroque architecture crammed inside one's skull? Such a strange cathedral, so well buttressed, so well defended?

Robert Charles Wilson

H]e dreamed things for which he had no words.

Think Like a Writer

In your thinking, learn to blend the analytical with the intuitive in order to become more creative.

synesthesia—moments in which the stimulation of one sense provokes another.

Pero la fuente primaria de la inteligencia humana es el desarrollo de las neuronas espejo (ver aquí), lo que nos concede la aptitud de ponernos en los zapatos de otro e imaginar su experiencia.

Reconnect with Your Childhood Obsession

Daily Law: Look at the sky and stars as if seeing them for the first time. Law of the Sublime, 1: Expand the Mind to Its Furthest Reaches—The Cosmic Sublime

What we most deeply desire, however, is to create our world for ourselves. Whenever we can do that, even in the slightest degree, we are happy. Now in play we create our own world...

Descubrió de este modo que, al dibujar cosas, tenía que observarlas con más detenimiento y captar los detalles que les daban vida.

Periodically return to your original vision and imagine the immense satisfaction you will have when it comes to fruition.

Sus repliegues las vuelven misteriosas, y las engrandecemos en nuestra imaginación.

Tú pasas a ser entonces apenas una cosa más que clama atención; tu atractivo se acabará a menos que actives una clase de hechizo más durarero que haga que la gente piense en ti en tu ausencia. Esto significa cautivar su imaginación, haciéndole creer que en ti hay más de lo que ve. Una vez que la gente empiece a adornar tu imagen con sus fantasías, estará atrapada.

Pero haz que la gente se pregunte por qué eres tímido o triste bajo tu desenvuelto ingenio intelectual, y conseguirás su atención. Dale una ambigüedad que le haga ver lo que quiere, atrapa su imaginación con algunos atisbos voyeuristas de tu alma oscura.

People do not want truth and honesty, no matter how much we hear such nonsense endlessly repeated. They want their imaginations to be stimulated and to be taken beyond their banal circumstances. They want fantasy and objects of desire to covet and grope after.

The single greatest action you can take for acquiring creative power is to reverse this natural impatience. Daily Law: Imagine yourself years in the future looking back at the work you have done.

Without any visual cues or any action on the part of others, we can place ourselves inside their minds and imagine what they might be thinking.

Debes aprender a despertar la curiosidad de la gente dejándola vislumbrar algo de tu vida privada —las causas por las que luchas, la persona de la que estás enamorado (por el momento)—, algo que parezca revelar un elemento de tu personalidad. Déjala fantasear e imaginar.

You become what you think, your daily thoughts your reality. You create the rich or arid landscape of your brain. If you constrict your thoughts to the same obsessions, to the tiny realm of your smartphone, that is the world that you create for yourself.

To bring power, fantasy must remain to some degree unrealized, literally unreal.