“Imagination transforms one substance into another. It changes what is into what might be, what was into what might have been. Straw becomes gold, gold straw, and neither is more real nor, I submit, more precious than the other. Pebbles turn into luminous pearls and pearls into little gray rocks, both solid and beautiful, both essential. Human beings take shape from clay, angels' wings are spun out of water, fire gives rise to the long tongues of demons, love emerges out of thin air, and the basic elements reconstitute themselves again and again.” GivingHumansLittlesLongHas BeensRealMightBeautifulTurnsWaterImaginationHuman BeingsFireAirRocksShapesEssentialsElementsAngelGoldWingsTongueSubstanceDemonGraySubmitAgain And AgainPearlsMight Have BeenClayLuminousStrawsPebblesSpunThin AirAngel Wings Book:The Man on the Ceiling Source: The Man on the Ceiling
“The essential fault of surrealism is that it invents without discovering. To make a clam play an accordion is to invent not to discover. The observation of the unconscious, so far as it can be observed, should reveal things of which we have previously been unconscious, not the familiar things of which we have been conscious plus imagination.” ShouldHas BeensPlayImaginationEssentialsConsciousFaultsFamiliarObservationUnconsciousPlusDiscoveringSurrealismAccordionsClamsFamiliar Things Book:Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose Source: Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose
“I have devoted myself to architecture as a sublime act of poetic imagination. Consequently, I am only a symbol for all those who have been touched by beauty. The words Beauty, Inspiration, Magic, Spellbound, Enchantment, as well as the concepts of Serenity, Silence, Intimacy and Amazement, all these have nestled in my soul. Though I am fully aware that I have not done them complete justice in my work, they have never ceased to be my guiding lights.” WellsHas BeensSoulDoneLightInspirationImaginationJusticeSilenceMagicConceptsArchitectureMy SoulSymbolsIntimacyTouchedPoeticSerenityDevotedSublimeEnchantmentAmazementGuiding Light Author:Luis Barragan
“To get such beauty from something that has been produced from the artist's own imagination appealed to me enormously.” Has BeensArtistImagination Author:Solomon R. Guggenheim
“In order to be as free as I possibly can, in my own imagination, I can't take positions that are closed. Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it, to open doors, sometimes, not even closing the book -- leaving the endings open for reinterpretation, revisitation, a little ambiguity.” WorldWritingLittlesHas BeensI CanBookSometimesDoneOrderImaginationMy OwnDoorsPositionLeavingClosingAmbiguityArticulationReinterpretation Author:Toni Morrison