imaginative pursuits Quotes

Creativity is a yearning for immortality

Day and night I always dream with open eyes." - José Martí

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?

Dreams, if they're any good, are always a little bit crazy.

Interesting things happen when the creative impulse is cultivated with curiosity, freedom and intensity.

I used to think, 'I'm going to write.' I knew that from quite early on, but I also thought, 'Maybe I'll be an explorer or a spy,' and it all came from books.

If you want to write anything that works, you have to go with the grain of your talent, not against it. If your talent is inert and sullen in the face of business or politics...but takes fire at the thought of ghosts and vampires and witches and demons then feed the flames, feed the flames.

One of the things that kept me out of trouble was doing something creative - creativity can't be judged.

Imagination flourishes best in solitude.

The creative consequences of man's imaginative strivings may never make him whole; but they constitute his deepest consolations and his greatest glories.

To seek visions, to dream dreams, is essential, and it is also essential to try new ways of living, to make room for serious experimentation, to respect the effort even where it fails.

There are some people who can never see a little cloud of fantasy float across the horizon of their dreams without building a heavy castle in the air upon it, and bringing it to earth.

In using the terms play and playfulness, I do not intend to suggest any lack of seriousness; quite the contrary. Anyone who has watched children, or adults, at play will recognize that there is no contradiction between play and seriousness, and that some forms of play induce a measure of grave concentration not so readily called forth by work.

A creative life cannot be sustained by approval, any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.

A dreamer he was, and ever would be. Yet dreaming need not injure us, if it do but take its turn with waking; and even dreams themselves may be turned to beauty, by favoured men to whom nature has given the powers of casting them into form.

There's a lot of idiots in Hollywood, a lot of people with no imagination, so as an actor you have to constantly re-show them what you can do.

If you are a dreamer come in

Imagination labors best in distant fields.

Creativity is God's will for us and should be practiced like any other spiritual practice -a day at a time.

There is more pleasure to building castles in the air than on the ground.

Since it doesn't cost a dime to dream, you'll never shortchange yourself when you stretch your imagination.

The dreamers are the saviors of the world. As the visible world is sustained by the invisible, so men, through all their trials and sins and sordid vocations, are nourished by the beautiful visions of their solitary dreamers.

I've never done anything but dream. This, and this alone, has been the meaning of my life. My only real concern has been my inner life.

Where I cannot satisfy my reason, I love to humour my fancy.

Literature remains alive only if we set ourselves immeasurable goals, far beyond all hope of achievement. Only if poets and writers set themselves tasks that no one else dares imagine will literature continue to have a function.