Gaston Bachelard Quotes

Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.

Man lives by imagination.

Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation.

I'm a daydreamer.

I was a great dreamer of day dreams.

The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.

If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.

You think about the beauty and what you want to transmit. If I think about designing, I can't design.

I am more connected to the world of the imagination, but you don't have to have polio to do that.

People seem to have trouble with the imagination. They can't believe that you can just pull things out of your brain like that.

You have something that exists in your head, and getting that abstract thought from your head into something that actually exists is a difficult process.

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

For me, imagination would always provide a means of escape.

We live in worlds that we have forged and composed. It's much more true than any of the species that you see. I mean, it seems to me that one of the most distinctive features of human intelligence is the capacity to imagine, to project out of our own immediate circumstances and to bring to mind things that aren't present here and now.

I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.

Everyone needs a fantasy.

My work has always dealt with a kind of space that allows one to daydream.

Human beings are creators, flinging powerful images into the minds of their fellow men. And all of these images are built of tiny particles of thought.

It's good to have fantasies and creative fantasies, especially.

The truth is, the less a subject had to do with the visible world, the more talented I was at solving problems.

The power of imagination is infinite.

You have to be open to dreaming. It's a complicated language, but I'm obsessed with it.

If you can imagine a thing, conjure it up in space then you can make it... The universe is real but you can't see it. You have to imagine it. Then you can be realistic about reproducing it.

Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith.