Algernon Blackwood Quotes

You create the world, blink by blink. It is entirely yours to discover and yours to create.

No one knows exactly where thought comes from, but it can be said that thought comes from the same place as whatever it is that beats our heart... it comes from being alive.

When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

Your imagination comes to life, and this, you think, is where Creation was begun.

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.

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

Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.

I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.

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

Nothing much interested me other than playing with language and telling stories and doing something with the wonders of the world around me.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe.

All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

I don't use tools to create things, but I use them to realize things.

Art is giving to what you create a soul.

I can make something magical and wonderful out of nothing.

That's what I find so special: when you actually imagine something. But really, when it comes to you in a dream, and then you can bring it to life on the screen, it's very powerful.

What I'm interested in as an actor is exploring universes that I have not come across before. It's interesting to me to be able to discover new things. I do like fantasies, and I like when film is inspiring and it puts creative ideas into the minds of the audience.

When I discovered metaphor and what it meant, I got really excited. That was what really pushed me through into music.

Space is a canvas, as large and blank as any ever created, for it is indeed creation itself, and it calls to us to paint upon it with our own dreams and imaginations anything we wish, anything we want, and anything we can imagine.

Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow… The kick of creation is the act of creating, not anything that happens afterward

People can relate to reading a book for the first time and the world starts to create, even without you prepping for it.