Salman Rushdie Quotes About Imagination

Quotes about: Imagination

• What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

  Salman Rushdie

  Art, Imagination, Firsts

• Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.

  Salman Rushdie

  Heart, Imagination, Literature

  The Hindu, February 26, 1995.

• The worst, most insidious effect of censorship is that, in the end, it can deaden the imagination of the people. Where there is no debate, it is hard to go on remembering, every day, that there is a suppressed side to every argument.

  Salman Rushdie

  Death, People, Imagination

• The world is about the way in which our dreams intersect with our real life. Endlessly, the world of the imagination changes the world.

  Salman Rushdie

  Dream, Real, Imagination

  Interview with Terry Gilliam, www.believermag.com. March 2003.

• What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. Without the freedom to challenge, even to satirize all orthodoxies, it ceases to exist. Language and the imagination cannot be imprisoned, or art will die, and with it, a little of what makes us human.

  Salman Rushdie

  Art, Expression, Imagination

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “In good faith”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

• I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that my imagination has returned to more than anywhere else.

  Salman Rushdie

  Thinking, Imagination, Bombay

• I believe in the art of literature, I believe in freedom of the imagination, I believe in the kind of liberties that we enjoy in these lucky countries of the world.

  Salman Rushdie

  Country, Art, Believe

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see. To think the way others think. And above all, to feel.

  Salman Rushdie

  Thinking, Doors, Imagination

• The suicide bomber's imagination leads him to believe in a brilliant act of heroism, when in fact he is simply blowing himself up pointlessly and taking other people's lives.

  Salman Rushdie

  Suicide, Believe, People

  "Terror Is Glamour". "Spiegel" Interview, www.spiegel.de. August 28, 2006.

• Few topographical boundaries can rival the frontiers of the mind.

  Salman Rushdie

  Imagination, Mind, Rivals

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