Quotes about Imagination

It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.

Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog the feet of sin. It was the imagination that made each crime bear its misshapen brood. In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.

Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see life as a whole, by which and by which alone we can understand others in their real and their ideal relation. Only what is fine, and finely conceived can feed love. But anything will feed hate.

The world is made by the singer for the dreamer.

My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold and anything else is just a waste of time.

But nothing is crueler than a coward, and the slaughter to come is probably beyond our imagining.

In the nights in their thousands to dream the dreams of a child's imaginings, worlds rich or fearful such as might offer themselves but never the one to be.

In the nights in their thousands to dream the dreams of a child's imaginings, worlds rich or fearful such as might offer themselves but never the one to be.

Real trouble doesn't begin in a society until boredom has become its most general feature. Boredom will drive even quietminded people down paths they never imagined.

And the dreams so rich in color. How else would death call you?