John Lennon Quotes

Images adorn our inner life and carry great power there.

I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not.

Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

With songs one invents a world that wouldn't exist otherwise. And in that world you can be more than you actually are.

When I first started painting, I had an interesting nightmare about Cleveland - I dreamed the houses there were encased in this free-floating cage structure. I guess Cleveland was a confining place for me, even though my parents weren't too conservative.

For me, surrealism is in my blood; it's not an effort.

The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.

The great thing about acting is that you get to be a lot of different things in one lifetime. You get to explore different personalities and characters.

I just wanted to be an artist. I didn't care how or what; I just wanted to express my artistic integrity, and I wanted the world to have a vision of what I was seeing in my mind.

I've dreamed landscapes for years, and my dreams play an enormous role in my work. In fact, when I first started doing landscapes I felt insecure about painting in this style, and the dreams were like positive omens for me, and I've done a few paintings that were exact replicas of images that came to me in dreams.

To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.

Great storytellers in the past would go to an unknown land and return to tell the stories they've found. Those were also journeys into their inner psyches and that's still true today. An actor, a writer, does that as if saying, 'Here's what I've discovered about myself and about the world I'm in. I would like to share this with you.'

Art must take reality by surprise.

You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does.

Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind.

I take a lot of enjoyment out of imagining myself as... I dunno... a wall. I keep adding bricks to my wall or little house.

The weirdest thing about a mind is that you can have the most intense things going on in there, but no one else can see them.

I think your imagination is your reality

The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.

I feel that the surrealists have created a series of valid external landscapes which have their direct correspondences within our own minds.

If surrealism ever comes to adopt a particular line of moral conduct, it has only to accept the discipline that Picasso has accepted and will continue to accept.

Using one's imagination to the fullest is necessary for a happy life.

Sometimes... sometimes I think the Asylum is a head. We're inside a huge head that dreams us all into being. Perhaps it's your head, Batman. Arkham is a looking glass... and we are you.