Thomas Huxley Quotes

Fiction, maybe art in general, is a tentative, uncertain enterprise; it's not science, it's an exploration, but you never find much in the way of answers.

Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither.

That's what I'm interested in: the space in between, the moment of imagining what is possible and yet not knowing what that is.

What we don't understand we can make mean anything.

I'm really interested in the nondefinitive element of abstraction.

I think mystery... allows us time to dream.

Science is my territory, but science fiction is the landscape of my dreams.

I think I'm painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape.

It's the only thing I get inspired by! I get inspired by dreams. Who cares about the rest?

In moments of doubt I cry, ‘Could God Himself create such lovely things as I dreamed?’ ‘Whence then came thy dream?’ answers Hope.

The heart makes dreams seem like ideas.

Some of my songs are like dreams, and when you go to sleep at night you don't know if you're gonna have a dream or what you're gonna dream about.

Sometimes the best ideas I have are in my bathtub or in my bed or in my dreams early in the morning before waking up ... I'm like a TV antennae, I catch it all and do it my way.

Change, create, inspire. Dreams really do work.

It's just like Yeats said. In dreams begin responsibilities. Flip this around and you could say that where there's no power to imagine, no responsibility can arise.

As long as a thing is unknown, it belongs to us in a way that well-known things do not. For we have the opportunity to fill the empty, unknown spaces for ourselves, and in them there is room for imagination and for hope.

Instead, we linger over a luxury that costs nothing: Imagining what may be.

From this point forth, we shall be leaving the firm foundation of fact and journeying together through the murky marshes of memory into thickets of wildest guesswork.

Like a heartbeat. Something inside me. Some dream. I think it's being a dreamer as a child. Dreamy kids become actors, don't they?

I had many books and I had dreams of all kinds. Dreams in which were in a certain sense, how to say, easy to make because the near future was always extremely threatening.

While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the earth.

Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams - day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing - are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization. A prominent educator tells me that fairy tales are of untold value in developing imagination in the young. I believe it.

Facts are the barren branches on which we hang the dear, obscuring foliage of our dreams.

Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in flight, searching the skies for dreams.

On a night without moon or stars you can't see a thing, but you can imagine anything.