“Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is es…”— Nora Ephron, books.google.com
“The gift of imagination is by no means an exclusive property of the artist; it is a gift we all share; to some degree or other all of us are endowed with the powers of fantasy, the dullest of dullards among us has the gift of dreams at night - visions and yearnings and hopes. Everyone can also think…”— Leonard Bernstein, goodreads.com
“Fantasy is often better than reality. It’s much more inspiring not to go to places than to go.”— Karl Lagerfeld, en.wikiquote.org
“It takes almost as much imagination to justify what you write as it does to write it.”— Stephen Sondheim, amazon.com
“[pig loses a baby tooth] 5-year-old: Now the tooth fairy will come! Me: I don't think the tooth fairy comes for pigs. 5: She does, but the money goes to me.”— James Breakwell, twitter.com
“Nature has mysterious infinities and imaginative power. It is always varying the productions it offers to us. The artist himself is one of nature's means.”— Paul Gaugin, amazon.com
“Painting is the most beautiful of all arts. In it, all sensations are condensed, at its aspect everyone may create romance at the will of his imagination, and at a glance have his soul invaded by the most profound memories, no efforts of memory, everything summed up in one moment. Complete art which…”— Paul Gaugin, en.wikiquote.org
“oh god it’s wonderful to get out of bed and drink too much coffee and smoke too many cigarettes and love you so much”— Frank O'Hara, amazon.com
“I was walking along a path with two friends — the sun was setting — suddenly the sky turned blood red — I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence — there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city — my friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety…”— Edvard Munch, en.wikiquote.org
“I like imagining your body is Saturn, my body ten thousand rings wrapped around you.”— Andrea Gibson, amazon.com
“When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in our imagination.”— Ingmar Bergman, amazon.com
“The poet presents the imagination with images from life and human characters and situations, sets them all in motion and leaves it to the beholder to let these images take his thoughts as far as his mental powers will permit.”— Arthur Schopenhauer, amazon.com
“The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings. And the sea is precisely their best vehicle, the only medium through which these giants (against which terrestrial animals, such as elephants or rhinoceroses, are as nothing) can be produced or developed”— Jules Verne, amazon.com
“So crucify the ego, before it's far too late, To leave behind this place so negative and blind And cynical - and you will come to find that, We are all one mind capable of All that's imagined and all conceivable, Just let the light touch you And let the words spill through, And let them pass right t…”— Maynard James Keenan, youtube.com