Gaston Bachelard Quotes About Imagination

Quotes about: Imagination

• Imagination is a tree. It has the integrative virtues of a tree. It is root and boughs. It lives between earth and sky. It lives in the earth and the wind. The imagined tree imperceptibly becomes a cosmological tree, the tree which epitomises a universe, which makes a universe.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Wind, Sky, Roots

• Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Space, Imagination, House

  "'Large White House Speaking' by Mark Irwin" reviewed by Alexis Orgera, therumpus.net. April 23, 2014.

• Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Love, Book, Imagination

  "Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books)". Book by Gaston Bachelard edited by Suzanne Bachelard, 1988.

• It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Imagination, Poetry, Soul

• Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Imagination, World, Thanks

• For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?

  Gaston Bachelard

  Reality, Men, Imagination

• Perhaps it is even a good idea to stir up a rivalry between conceptual and imaginative activity. In any case, one will encounter nothing but disappointments if he intends to make them cooperate. The image can not provide matter for a concept. By giving stability to the image, the concept would stifle its life.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Disappointment, Ideas, Giving

• The image can only be studied through the image, by dreaming images as they gather in reverie. It is a non-sense to claim to study imagination objectively since one really receives the image only if he admires it. Already in comparing one image to another, one runs the risk of losing participation in its individuality.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Running, Dream, Objectivity

• Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Rivers, Water

• Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?

  Gaston Bachelard

  Real, Imagination, Perception

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