Quotes About Imagination

Each of our five senses contains an art.

But then is not life itself a fairy-tale which we lose the power of apprehending as we grow? No matter.

I imagine, therefore I belong and am free".' Of

Never to imagine that any of these generalizations we make about gods or men is valid, but to cherish them because they carry in them the fallibility of our own minds.

only there, in the silences of the painter or the writer can reality be reordered, reworked and made to show its significant side.

One night he woke to the soughing of great wings and saw a bat-like creature with the head of a violin resting upon the bedrail.

If things were always what they seemed, how impoverished would be the imagination of man!

Yes, one day I found myself writing down with trembing fingers the four words with which every story-teller since the world began has staked his slender claim to the attention of his fellow-men. Words which presage simply the old story of an artist coming of age. I wrote: 'Once upon a time...

How sad if we pass through life and never see it with the eyes of a child.

If there were dreams to sell, Merry and sad to tell, And the crier rung his bell, What would you buy?

Mainly, I thought of Barney Fife as a kid. You can always look into the faces of kids and see what they're thinking, if they're happy or sad. That's what I tried to do with Barney.

Won't it be sad to have an Internet connection to Mars if there are no Martians to write to or e-mail us?

Advertising reaches out to touch the fantasy part of people's lives. And you know, most people's fantasies are pretty sad.

Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.

The sad ending is only because the author stops telling the story. But it still goes on. It's just untold.

When feeling sad, dream on! When feeling happy, dream on! You shall survive by means of your dreams!

If you can't give me poetry, can't you give me poetical science?

Science is competitive, aggressive, demanding. It is also imaginative, inspiring, uplifting.

Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that's all.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.

O God, I could be bound in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space – were it not that I have bad dreams.

I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.

A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.