Quotes about Imagination

A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.

Billy Collins writes lovely poems. Limpid, gently and consistently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are and were and some others besides.

its earliest form, a spontaneous and instinctive endeavor to shape the facts of the world to meet the needs of the imagination, the cravings of the heart.

imagination, and as the frontiers of knowledge are pushed still further away from the obvious and familiar, there will be an increasing tax on the imagination. The world of dead matter which our fathers thought they understood has become a world of subtle forces moving with inconceivable velocity; nothing is inert, all things are transformed into other and more elusive shapes precisely as the makers of the fairy tales foresaw and

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

When we read we are able to travel to many places, meet many people and understand the world.

The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination.

That's the place to get to—nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world's somewheres, into our own nowhere.

Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.

To have a faith, therefore, or a trust in anything, where God hath not promised, is plain idolatry, and a worshipping of thine own imagination instead of God.

He who hopes in God trusts God, Whom he never sees, to bring him to the possession of things that are beyond imagination.

Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.