Quotes About Imagination

Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.

Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.

It is so much simpler to bury reality than it is to dispose of dreams. ? Don DeLillo, Americana (ACTES SUD; 0 edition, August 10, 1993)

Perhaps what he feared most was happening–his imagination had abandoned him, the well had gone dry.

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

The wand waved; the Adam's Apple leapt, and they were off. What followed cannot be indicated typographically. But if a cat were a sawmill, and a dog were a gigantic cart full of tin cans bouncing through a stone paved street, and that dog and that cat hated each other and were telling each other so, it would sound much like it.

If "ifs" and "buts" were candy and nuts, wouldn't it be a Merry Christmas?

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

I'm kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There were some books that even copied the stamp. It shows so little imagination.

But if you build your life on dreams it's prudent to recall a man with moonlight in his hands has nothing there at all.

La qualità della vostra vita dipende da ciò che farete. Gli unici limiti alle avventure sono i limiti della vostra immaginazione.

looks out at a wave breaking like a white pencil being drawn across a blue piece of paper.

They shouldn't look out the window when they hear shit," Ron Minelli says. "But that was probably her whole life. She probably spent her whole day looking out the window.

Is there a child in the world who does not believe in magic?

Like a lot of painters in this century, you seem to enjoy lifting things out of the world, in this case words or phrases, and then... And then, sung to and Simonized, theyre thrown into the mesh.

One of the beautiful things about words is that you can put words together which in isolation mean nothing, or mean only what the dictionary says they mean, and you put them together and you get extraordinary effects.

When you improvise, do you think of the chord changes or the melody? Both. This is an interesting question which Im unable to answer adequately. If the melody is the skeleton of the particular object, then the chord changes are its wardrobe, its changes of clothes. I tend to pay rather more attention to the latter than to the former. All I want is just a trace of skeletonthree bones from which the rest may be reasoned out.

One of the pleasures of art is that it enables the mind to move in unanticipated directions, to make connections that may be in some sense errors but are fruitful nonetheless.

Best not to anticipate too much ... it jiggles the possibilities.

We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.

To construct is the essence of vision. Dispense with construction and you dispense with vision. Everything you experience by sight is your construction.

What we call 'reality,' consists of an elaborate papier-mâché construction of imagination and theory filled in between a few iron posts of observation."22 We

I discovered that in a story I could safely dream any dream, hope any hope, go anywhere I pleased any time I pleased, fight any foe, win or lose, live or die. My stories created a safe experimental learning place.