Evelyn Waugh Quotes

There's a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without the thorn.

Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.

The most terrifying things in the universe came from human minds.

Art is not just to show life as it is, but to show life as it should be.

- But Abraham, you mean I'm supposed to make stuff up !?!? - You are creators, you make stuff up all the time!

Art is based on very clear, mathematical principles like proportion and harmony. At the same time, physicists need to be inventive, to have ideas, to have some fantasy.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.

I'm intrigued by the dark. Out of darkness comes creation.

That's one thing about fiction: you can make the world be the way you think it should be.

I really like dating stories, like in Betty and Veronica comics; I like David Lynch and H.P. Lovecraft for the dark gut-wrenching stuff, and I'm inspired by Miyazaki's films for the subtle heart-warming moments, as well as the moments that blew up my imagination.

Fantasy has a dark side to it. It also has a light hemisphere - the power of the human imagination to keep going, to imagine a better tomorrow.

Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it there.

My imagination was no competition for nature.

If we knew exactly what animal life was like before the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before the law of entropy invaded it, we would already be living in heaven.

My idea of heaven is not writing.

I am more connected to the world of the imagination, but you don't have to have polio to do that.

My photographs are a celebration of life, fun and the beautiful. They are a world that doesn't exist. A fantasy. Freedom is real. There are no rules. The life I wish I was living.

The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place... is called genius.

From stoplights to skyscrapers, turn anywhere in civilization and you will see imagination at work. It's in our inventions, advances and remedies and how a single parent masterminds each day. Imagination is boundless, surrounds us and resides in us all.

Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe.

If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets.

As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note.