Quotes About Imagination

Car notre passé, qu'est-il d'autre qu'une suite de rêves ? Quelle différence y a-t-il entre se rappeler les rêves et se rappeler le passé ? Et c'est la fonction que remplit le livre.

edmond about'un roman? the king of the mountains (1857) için gustave dore'nin yapt??? gravürler, gecenin dü?lerini hat?rlarken al?nan zevkin güzel bir örne?idir. bir ingiliz han?m ve güzel k?z?yla birlikte yunanl? e?k?yalar taraf?ndan kaç?r?lan ba? kahraman, genç k?zla birlikte -fakat yan?nda annesi olmaks?z?n!- kaç?p kurtulma hayallerini anlatarak vakit geçirir.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

I think it's a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as story-telling is largely controlled by the soulless cretins known as publishers.

Happy children do not seem to grow up to be writers.

People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.

Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk? Then, leave me to my foolishness.

After all, what is art? Art is the creative process and it goes through all fields. Einstein's theory of relativity – now that is a work of art! Einstein was more of an artist in physics than on his violin. Art is this: art is the solution of a problem which cannot be expressed explicitly until it is solved.

Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before they have been solved. The shaping of the question is part of the answer.

There are indeed many wonders, and with regard to the stories people tell one another, it may be that such tales go beyond the true account and, embellished with iridescent lies, beguile them.

L'arte, che col suo pregio dona ogni dolcezza ai mortali, spesso fece sì che anche l'incredibile diventasse credibile.

The reason why we are disenchanted with ourselves is because we entertain in the depths of our psyche a kind of vision-an anticipated vision of what we could be if we would be what we might be.

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.

It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.

Life must be lived as play.

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is god, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but never less, dazzaling, passionate, and eternal form.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything.

Necessity, who is the mother of invention.

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

All beyond this is portentous and fabulous, inhabited by poets and mythologers, and there is nothing true or certain.

All men, while they are awake, are in one common world; but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

Painting is silent poetry.

Psychics are like porno stars," I said. "Anybody can be one.