Quotes About Imagination

People"—Geralt turned his head—"like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves.

There's a grain of truth in every fairy tale

You've mistaken the stars reflected on the surface of the lake at night for the heavens.

I mistook stars reflected in a pond at night for those in the sky.

I lack the imagination. For that reason I have to pack, stuff into my pockets odds and ends, passport, money, and go see what it's really like. Whenever the time of year or the weather changes, I have to pack up whatever I can't do without and visit all those places I've been before, to make sure they still exist

The future is fiction. It will come, of course, we hear about it all the time, but the old wisdom knows that only what is, and what was, exists. The rest does not, because no one ever saw it or touched it.

Taki jest sens literatury, ?eby ci? wykolei?a z normalnej codzienno?ci, ?eby ci? wystrzeli?a w kosmos z tego zwyk?ego ?ycia, ?eby? si? nie da? udupi?. ?eby? nie s?ucha? rodziców, tylko ?eby? s?ucha? Martina Edena, bo jednak, z ca?ym szacunkiem dla rodziców, oferta, jak? on sk?ada, jest ciekawsza.

Próbuj? wyobrazi? sobie ?wiat przed fotografi? i nie potrafi?. Prawdopodobnie w ogóle nie istnia?, nieustannie przepada?,poch?oni?ty przez ruchliwe, nienasycone zmys?y, nic z niego nie zostawa?o.

To zabawne, ?e próbuj?c upora? si? z czasem, zazwyczaj wracamy do minionego, do tego, co ukszta?towane, do gotowej formy. Wyobra?nia nie potrafi niczego wymy?li?. Zawieszona w pró?ni spada jak kamie? albo zajmuje si? sob?, co koniec ko?ców wychodzi na jedno.

Ludzie nie pragn? ?eczy wymy?lonych, poci?ga ich tylko to, co zobaczyli wcze?niej.

Es gibt nun mal solche Bücher, die schon auf wenigen Seiten, in wenigen Sätzen eine so starke Welt evozieren, dass uns die "Fortsetzung" nicht mehr interessiert, die weitere Lektüre überflüssig oder gar unmöglich erscheint. Man hat einfach nicht mehr die Kraft dazu. Natürlich kommen wir irgendwann darauf zurück, um die nächste Dosis Rauschgift – oder Gift – zu konsumieren.

Un voyage du pays du roi Ubu au pays du vampire Dracula ne peut pas renfermer de souvenirs auxquels on puisse croire plus tard, comment on croit, par exemple, à l'existence de Paris, de Stonehenge ou de la place Saint-Marc. (p. 22)

Dobrze jest ?y? w krainach nieoczywistych, poniewa? ich granice zawieraj? w sobie wi?cej przestrzeni, ni? wskazuje geografia. To s? otch?anie nieznanego, to jest niesko?czona dal domys?ów, uciekaj?cy horyzont wyobra?e? i fatamorgana s?odkich przes?dów, którym nigdy nie sprosta rzeczywisto??.

Misusing our imagination grants power to fear. Know that fear and its many demon relatives do not--and cannot--exist without a human host.

can. The kids

Well, that's why smart people get tripped up with worry and fear. Worry...fear...is just a misuse of the creative imagination that has been placed in each of us. Because we are smart and creative, we imagine all the things that could happen, that might happen, that will happen if this or that happens. See what I mean?

My goal is to draw a line with some 'flavor' to it.

I thought I should make a place to bring light down into this world. All things that become realities start in that place of someone imagining them.

Girls are always running through my mind. They don't dare walk.

Fear always accompanies the making of art, generated by the shock of seeing an idea taking its form. A sculpture in the mind is safe and secure--the actual work rarely behaves as intended.

Andy Griffiths

A bunch of monkeys were riding the marshmallow machine straight at us and firing marshmallows at our heads.

Zack walked across the room to the window, leaned out and peered into the night.

It's the only job I can think of where I get to be both an engineer and an artist. There's an incredible, rigorous, technical element to it, which I like because you have to do very precise thinking. On the other hand, it has a wildly creative side where the boundaries of imagination are the only real limitation.