Quotes About Imagination

I see her as a kind of Midas, turning everything she touched into imagination.

One reads to tickle and amuse one's mind; one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.

Little Reuben woke up repeating word for word a long lecture by that curious old writer (one of the very few whose works have been permitted to come down to us), George Bernard Shaw, who was speaking, according to a well-authenticated tradition, about his own genius.

four-seater sporticopter. They'd be late for dinner if he didn't come soon.

The mental climate of our age is not favorable to visionaries.

What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescaline, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time. His perception is not limited to what is biologically or socially useful. A little of the knowledge belonging to Mind at Large oozes past the reducing valve of brain and ego, into his consciousness.

Of that imagined stoicism, that theoretical courage, not a trace was left.

As recently as a week ago, in the Director's office, he had imagined himself courageously resisting, stoically accepting suffering without a word. The Director's threats had actually elated him, made him feel larger than life.

If] you go to the antipodes of the self-conscious mind, you will encounter all sorts of creatures... . You do not invent these creatures ... . They live their own lives in complete independence. A man cannot control them.

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She lives in the world of Romance, in the perpetual dream of Rapture

Que se ha cansado de ver siempre los mismos colores y se ha vendado los ojos una temporada para olvidarlos y pensar otros nuevos.

Encuentro que la vida es aburrida y estúpida por falta de imaginación. Demasiada razón, demasiada disciplina en todo.

El arte no es cosa de experiencia; es cosa de imaginación. Javier de Maistre hacía viajes maravillosos alrededor de su cuarto; Beethoven era sordo; Milton cuando escribió el canto a la luz, estaba ciego.

Mintea omului este ca viaÈ›a:un labirint care unori scoate din cel ce se pierde în el lucruri pe care niciodat? nu È™i le-a închipuit.

Además, Ti Noel nunca estaba solo aunque estuviese solo. Desde hacía mucho tiempo había adquirido el arte de conversar con las sillas, las ollas, o bien con una vaca, una guitarra, o con su propia sombra.

A world of houses where Californian, the Gothic or Moorish, dwarf Parthenons, Greek temples with lights and venetian blinds mixed with Renaissance villas.

All the lives I could live, all the people I will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is all that the world is.

All the lives we could live, all the people we will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is what the world is.

If we are to dream of things impossible, let's dream big.

La vie n'est pas assez grande pour y faire entrer tout ce que le désir peut imaginer.

beyond the end of the world

Ognuno di noi, ha bisogno di sogni per vivere.

Poi non è che la vita vada come tu te la immagini. Fa la sua strada. E tu la tua.