Quotes About Imagination

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Just for a moment, as he pulled himself back inside the Land Rover, Strike wondered where he'd be if he lived to eighty, and who'd be there with him.

We are creating at this moment what our tomorrow will be

Photographs were more than my livelihood. They were part of my life. The way light fell on a surface never failed to tug at my imagination. The way one picture, a single snapshot, could capture the essence of a time and place, a city, a war, a human being, was embedded in my consciousness. One day, one second, I might close the shutter on the perfect photograph.

There is an ache in my heart for the imagined beauty of a life I haven't had, from which I had been locked out, and it never goes away.

Nothing says hell has to be fire.

Yes. Childhood is the most dangerous place of all. If we had to live there forever, we wouldn't last very long.

Nothing is real for me until I've read about it.

Man, I love the 'Lord of the Rings' movies. Some people would say I'm weird for liking those types of movies, but they are so cool.

Laughable error and profound discovery are born of the same freedom.

Then came the Boris Vallejo virtual reality mindfucks.

This was the very reason why we made music: we take something that exists within all of us at our very fundamental core, our emotions, and through our artistic lens, through our creativity, we're able to shape those emotions into reality.

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.

Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities

A book unwritten is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down one sentence and it's halfway to being just like every other bloody book that's ever been written.

The awful longing in his eyes, are changed forever On their rocky waste of island by their imagination Of his imagination of the song they didn't sing.

Imagination runs through the places where we live like water. We need both things-a living knowledge of the land and a live imagination of it and our place in it- if we are going to preserve it.

It is good sometimes for poetry to disenchant us.

Poetry is a fireplace in summer or a fan in winter.

I could almost hear my books in the living room, boarded up in their Jefferson bookcases, crying out to me, like someone stuck in an elevator, or a coffin: "Let us out of here. We're suffocating. Let us out. Let us OUT!" And I started to laugh. "I'll be down in a minute," I said.

He knew that he'd known her for less than a week, but now that she was gone he was continually probing his feelings for her, the way he might probe a sore tooth with his tongue, engaging her in imaginary conversations, imagining her saying such delightful things.

Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.

The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

There is no art without contemplation.