Quotes about Imagination

The great thing about literature is that it's subjective. No two readers read the same book, because we all see the words through different eyes, filter the story through different life experiences.

There is no faster way to change your circumstance than to open a great book.

She'd noticed immediately that I understood the lure of a good story. Sometimes a world that doesn't exist is the only escape from the one that does.

Now we haven't got anything, and when you haven't got a single book, the idea of putting your hands on one is like Christmas and a birthday rolled up together.

Without desire how is it possible to make a story?

Works from the soul transcend works from the mind.

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

All human beings are also dream beings. Dream ties all humankind together.

When we speak of knowing God, it must be understood with reference to man's limited powers of comprehension. God, as He really is, is far beyond man's imagination, let alone understanding. God has revealed only so much of Himself as our minds can conceive and the weakness of our nature can bear.

Do not quench your inspiration and your inmagination do not become the slave of your model.

I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream.

How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone.