#imagination

"People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it's someone else's vision, isn't it?"[Interview in The Independent, 15 October 2005]"

"Imagination is Everything!"

"We lay there and looked up at the night sky and she told me about stars called blue squares and red swirls and I told her I'd never heard of them. Of course not, she said, the really important stuff they never tell you. You have to imagine it on your own."

"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is."

"Isn't it a good thing we don't know everything? If we did, we wouldn't have a reason to have curiosity, and curiosity is like imagination, taking us back to the time when we were just children in our own fantasylands."

"In my imagination, this world is an amazingly beautiful, peaceful, loving and kind."

"My imagination is something of a badass."

"The canvas isn’t empty. It’s full of whatever you imagine it to be full of. My art is so conceptual that not only do I not tell, but I don’t even show. All I do is sign the canvas and try to sell it."

"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."

"How do we remain faithful to our own spiritual imagination and not betray what we know in our own bodies? The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy."

"There are three qualities that every individual must have to achieve success: a Monk’s patience, a Warrior’s courage, a Child’s imagination."

"Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."

"Please, touch me, I pray."

"The universe is full of men going through the same motions in the same surroundings, but carrying within themselves, and projecting around them, universes as mutually remote as the constellations."

"My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it."

"Our imagination is bigger than this universe."

"I don’t know what’s in the box, but I love it. Unopened gifts contain hope."

"It’s strange how dreams get under your skin and give your heart a test for what’s real and what’s imaginary."

"I think imagination is at the heart of everything we do. Scientific discoveries couldn't have happened without imagination. Art, music, and literature couldn't exist without imagination. And so anything that strengthens imagination, and reading certainly does that, can help us for the rest of our lives."

"The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it."