Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes

Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.

Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Science is the special province of the ego. And magic and art are the special province of something else. I could name it, but I won't. It prefers to be unnamed

Imagination comes from yourself and can deceive you, but vision is a gift from outside yourself - like light striking on your closed eyelids and lifting them to see what's really there.

Everything that I've ever done is not really based on reality, it's the caricature of reality, which is what's really exciting.

God and the imagination are one.

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

Faith isn't an act of intelligence, it's an act of imagination.

I AM A PERSON WHO THINKS ABOUT THE NATURE OF THE SPIRIT WHEN I WRITE. I THINK ABOUT WHAT CAN'T BE KNOWN AND ONLY IMAGINED. I OFTEN SENSE A SPIRIT OR FORCE OR MEANING BEYOND MYSELF. I LEAVE IT OPEN AS TO WHAT THE SPIRIT IS, BUT I CONTINUE TO MAKE GUESSES.

If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

It is the function of creative man to perceive and to connect the seemingly unconnected.

All my work comes from perceiving. I kept seeing things that were brooding in me. I'm not a geometric artist.

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

Magic is my paint.

Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.

I did go there later, but I hadn't been there before I wrote the book. Sometimes I feel like the imagined can feel more real than the real?

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.

I've read up on magic, and I think it sets you free, and it gives you hope. You can explore worlds you didn't know existed. It stretches your imagination, and I like my own imagination to be stretched and also the children I'm telling the story to. It gives you a sense of wonder.

When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

I think the worst that can happen in filmmaking is if you're working with a storyboard. That kills all intuition, all fantasy, all creativity.