Quotes about Imagination

Hate is a lack of imagination.

Concepts create idols; only wonder grasps anything.

True poets lead no one unawares. It is nothing other than awareness that poets-that is, creators of all sorts-seek. They do not display their art so as to make it appear real; they display the real in a way that reveals it to be art.

An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.

I think we're [men and women] more similar. In that we all deal with our fantasy lives and sometimes are disappointed by reality.

For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.

They would say well there's always been wars, men have always beaten women. But it isn't true in all cultures. It doesn't have to be true. And the first step is imaging.

If the storm forgets to bring a rainbow, paint your own.

If the sky was the limit, stars would not light our way to the edge of the universe.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men! A weird life it is, indeed, to be living always in somebody else's imagination, as if that were the only place in which one could at last become real!

I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.