Quotes About Imagination

To have a fear you have to be able to imagine the future, and I never think about the future anymore. It is no longer my destination.

She likes to think this is a real memory, but she doesn't know that she isn't making it up.

What is art, anyway, except not pounding on walls.

To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.

Creative thinking is not stimulated by vicarious issues but by personal problems.

Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.

If the do has the can, and the ifs possess the butts, then the has can can the can in the if's butt, and the delicate walnut shell that is the universe shall be sundered, and the Prepositional Pronouns will break free from their shackles, and the when's shall rule the world

Quem sabe? Talvez encontres a solução num sonho. Já aconteceram coisas mais estranhas.

We pursued the muses, instead of the mirrors.

ask always what's the best real possibility, not what's the ultimate ideal imagining.

Just as Europeans would be long obsessed with African cannibalism, so Africans imagined Europeans practicing the same thing.

Ranulf Higden, a Benedictine monk who mapped the world about 1350, claimed that Africa contained one-eyed people who used their feet to cover their heads. A geographer in the next century announced that the continent held people with one leg, three faces, and the heads of lions. In 1459, an Italian monk, Fra Mauro, declared Africa the home of the roc, a bird so large that it could carry an elephant through the air.

the optimism, the boundless confidence of a society that had not yet seen or imagined the world wars, the belief that humankind had the capacity to briskly eradicate all barriers that lay in the path of progress. "Our

Once a poet calls his myth a myth, he prevents the reader from treating it as a reality; we use the word 'myth' only for stories we ourselves cannot believe.

I have the same fantasy every time I read a book I love, no matter who wrote it, no matter when it was written. That the author has written his book only for me.

He had no idea who bought his books, how they acquired the money to buy them. Perhaps they were saints, perhaps they were criminals...

Isn't that why all writers write? To inspire their readers?

Sometimes in fiction you had to mute reality in order to make it seem more believable.

That the author is speaking only to us, that he is writing only for us, that no one on Earth has the same relationship to that author as we do. I have the same fantasy every time I read a book I love, no matter who wrote it, no matter when it was written. That the author has written his book only for me.

For engineers, designers and other creative problem-solvers, a formal definition of the constraints within which they must work is essential to channel energies and expand creativity.

say, 'There never was such a person as Homer,'" the English essayist Thomas De Quincey joked in 1841.

The Odyssey is constantly free and constantly inventive.

I don't mind him not talking so much, because you can hear his voice in your heart; the same way you can hear a song in your head even if there isn't a radio playing; the same way you can hear those blackbirds flying when they're not in the sky

I think there's a part of the brain, probably somewhere in the back, that won't give up believing in magic. It was the part that made cavemen believe that drawing elks on stone would make for a good hunt the next day. And it's still chugging along, making you think you have lucky socks, or that your kids' birthdays will win the lottery.