Alive Quote by Anonymous

Pictures! Pictures! Pictures! Often, before I learned, did I wonder whence came the multitudes of pictures that thronged my dreams; for they were pictures…

— Jack London

Sometimes images may emerge from some chord in my subconscious, the way a dream might. Even in those paintings where an image unconsciously develops,…

— Robert Motherwell

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.

— Marsha Norman

I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or…

— Galen Rowell

“Dreams appear much more prominent and clear when the dreamer is in an unhealthy state - they have an extraordinary semblance of reality. Most…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“There are images that stay vividly in your mind, even after many years: images coupled with the feeling that at the same time came…

— Paul Scott

In a dreamlike state, with eyes closed (I found the daylight too unpleasantly glaring), I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes…

— Albert Hofmann

The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways…

— Richard Wright

I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort of narrative, and other times they…

— Adam Rapp

When I look back at my life and think about what really happened, my memory is obscured by the stories I've created out of…

— Scott Spencer

“I have always found quite useful Freud's formulation that the dream borrows building blocks from the day residue, but that for images to be…

— Irvin D. Yalom