Cyril Connolly Quotes

I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.

But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not.

I was obsessed with this idea that these things that you collect, they just say so much about who you are. I can't say it came from hard-nosed business analysis... It was just something I really want to see built.

Fantasy appeals to me and can be very much reflected in my dress - but then, each day is different. Not every day is a magical day.

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

A lot of people forget how important it is to be creative. We get caught up in getting ahead and in day-to-day minutiae. But creativity is a fundamental mode of expression, as is being tenacious and standing by your own convictions and passions, even if it's not the 'popular' choice.

Everybody has their thing they like or don't like to see. It's all in your head. That's why people take their own pictures, because it's difficult for someone else to capture what you seek.

The interesting thing with fashion is that it's really a massive daydream.

Anything that can be dreamed is true.

The word realist means nothing to me, because I would subordinate reality to temperament. Give me what is true and I applaud; but give me what is individual and alive and I applaud even more.

I am a pretty tough nut, I guess, and I love art as one of the expressions that probably appeals to my softer side that a lot of people would deny I had.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

I just do what I think is funny and what's exciting to me.

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.

I was very sensitive. I liked everything that touched fantasy and beauty. I dreamed of being a ballerina, but Mother said I was too big, too long.

All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.

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.

Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul' or 'Eros.'

For me, fashion is not about reality.

There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.

I know my choices will be creative so long as I follow my heart.

'The Moon Rabbit' is laying against the bunker, dreaming and thinking about life and dreaming the impossible possible and creating its own true stories.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.