Dejan Stojanovic Quotes

To dream magnificently is not a gift given to all men, and even for those who possess it, it runs a strong risk of being progressively diminished by the ever-growing dissipation of modern life and by the restlessness engendered by material progress. The ability to dream is a divine and mysterious ability; because it is through dreams that man communicates with the shadowy world which surrounds him. But this power needs solitude to develop freely; the more one concentrates, the more one is likely to dream fully, deeply.

Shut your eyes and see.

We are all visionaries, and what we see is our soul in things.

You must remember how to dream what you already know.

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

The poet is the priest of the invisible.

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.

Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.

It's important to have an imagination.

I dream like a shaman.

I am interested in relating the things we see with the things we see with our eyes closed.

Dreams take short cuts.

Close your eyes and see what you believe.

The most important dreams occur while people are fully awake.

I connect the psychedelic dimension to the dimension of inspiration and dream.

My idea of storytelling is - I wouldn't say it's religious but I would say it's spiritual. You know, the chemist Friedrich August Kekule worked for twenty years trying to figure out the structure of the benzene ring, and he couldn't do it. And then one night he was sleeping and he had a vision of a snake swallowing its tail. So he told his students about it and they said, 'Not bad, you go to sleep and you wake up with that.' And he said, 'Visions come to prepared spirits.' The way Billy Wilder put it was 'The muse has to know where to find you.'

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.

Hold fast to your most indefinite, waking dream.

you know, a daydream properly utilized can be the most powerful force in the universe. One need only dream of freedom to begin to break the spell of enslavement.

I love to dream, but I never try to dream and think at the same time.

My art teacher had said that if you breathed deeply and imagined something, you could be there. You could see it, feel it. During our standoffs with the NKVD, I learned to do that. I clung to my rusted dreams during the times of silence. It was at gunpoint that I fell into every hope and allowed myself to wish from the deepest part of my heart. Komorov thought he was torturing us. But we were escaping into a stillness within ourselves. We found strength there.