Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes

I heard the bells from the future churches, the children playing and laughing in the schoolyards [...] and here was an almond tree in bloom before me: I must reach out and cut a flowering branch. For, by believing passionately in something which still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired, whatever we have not irrigated with our blood to such a degree that it becomes strong enough to stride across the somber threshold of nonexistence.

By believing passionately in that which doesn't exist, you create it and that which has not been sufficiently desired is what we call the non existent.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

It's a funny thing: my name in Arabic means hope, so I suppose I have to live by that principle. Hope is desire, feeling, and investing in a projection of something that doesn't yet exist. At its best, you witness its alchemy in your life, turning something that was once in the mind into reality. At its worst, it's delusion.

I believed totally in the possibilities implied in the series. I never thought of it as fantasy. Far from it.

I believe in the potential of all things possibly imagined that can be made into a reality.

There's a fine line between imagination and reality. An inventor dreams something up, and pretty soon, it's there on the table before him. A science-fiction writer envisions another world, and then some space probe finds it. If you believe in something strongly enough, I think you can make it happen.

We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope.

If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility.

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.

You do have a Dream. It's part of what it means to be human, created in the image of God.

I'm a great believer in possibilities.

Imagination is the will of things. . . .

There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.

You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become?

Therefore art means: you have to believe, to have faith, that is, cultivate vision.

I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.

You're always believing ahead of your evidence. What was the evidence I could write a poem? I just believed it. The most creative thing in us is to believe in a thing.

Be willing to dream, and imagine yourself becoming all that you wish to be. Keep in mind the basic axiom -- all that now exists was once imagined. It follows then that what you want to exist for you in the future must now be imagined.

I believe you can speak things into existence.

What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.

I want to represent the idea that you really can make what you want I believe I can create whatever I want to create.

There is no creation without faith and hope. There is no faith and hope that does not express itself in creation.

If you have the FAITH to believe it, you have the POWER to conceive it!