Quotes about Imagination

Altogether, if I had to pick one place to hang out anywhere, from New York to Cape Town and Australia to Hong Kong, a bookstore would be it.

Altogether, I can't imagine technology replacing bookstores completely, any more than movies about a country replace going there.

I soon developed myopia and a firm belief that people in books were not only more interesting but more real than people outside of books.

Our brains are organized by narrative and image.

Between what is and what could be?

There is something wonderful about a book. We can pick it up. We can heft it. We can read it. We can set it down. We can think of what we have read. It does something for us. We can share great minds, great actions, and great undertakings in the pages of a book.

Books represent the accumulated workings of the human mind, the endless treasures of man's thoughts.

I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were early implanted in his imagination; no matter how utterly his reason may reject them, he will still feel as the famous woman did about ghosts, Je n'y crois pas, mais je les crains, — "I don't believe in them, but I am afraid of them, nevertheless."

He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: environment is but a looking glass.

Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow all delightful

Composer, sculptor, painter, poet, prophet, sage, these are the makers of the after-world, the architects of heaven. The world is beautiful because they have lived; without them, labouring humanity would perish.