Quotes About Imagination

Don't go to a museum with a destination. Museums are wormholes to other worlds. They are ecstasy machines.

Art is two parts agency and one part inner heat. The artist loves going down rabbit holes, working toward and against something at the same time, translating sensory and extrasensory impressions that all have their own sovereignty or joy, each of them on a journey to bring something back from a personal underworld, to build a new body out of disparate parts and materials. In this way, art is something like an undoing of death.

When I was a child, ladies and gentlemen, I was a dreamer. I read comic books and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I ever dreamed has come true a hundred times." He

And that's when I realized, when you're a kid you don't need a costume, you ARE superman.

Nothing's more fun than being carried away.

Creativity is the opposite of TV.

Performance metrics as a measure of accountability help to allocate blame when things go badly, but do little to encourage success,28 especially when success requires imagination, innovation, and risk. Indeed, as the economist Frank Knight noted almost a century ago, entrepreneurship entails "immeasurable uncertainty," which is not susceptible to metric calculation.

Can the imagination, any more than the boy, be held prisoner ?" - from the foreword to the 1976 edition of "The Painted Bird

At times, feeling the wind on my brow, I went numb with horror. In my imagination I saw armies of ants and cockroaches calling to one another and scurrying toward my head, to some place under the top of my skull, where they would build new nests. There they would proliferate and eat out my thoughts, one after another, until I would become as empty as the shell of a pumpkin from which all the fruit has been scraped out.

I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.

I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.

The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

Graphic expression is the artist's impression...

Es mi deseo aprovechar este maravilloso espacio en blanco de la hoja de papel

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

For an idea that does not at first seem insane, there is no hope.

Einstein looked as if he'd just smoked an exploding cigar." Albert's years at the patent office were wonderful.

This is what happens when you live in dreams, he thought: you dream this and you dream that and you sleep right through your life.

Some memories remain close; you can shut your eyes and find yourself back in them. But there are second-person memories, too, distant you memories, and these are trickier: you watch yourself in disbelief.

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

Roth wrote The Breast . Would you ask him how he could do this since he had never been a breast? Adams wrote Watership Down . Would you ask him how he could do this since he admitted his rabbit knowledge came from a book about rabbits? ... And those hobbits!... I am a bigger risk-taker than these others. The Hoosiers can contradict me. No rabbit, hobbit, or breast has been known to speak up in reply to their exploiters.

However, out in the world I have come to see that he who looks too hard for any particular thing, though he may find it, will certainly miss the most wondrous and strange things he passes, though they stare him in the face.