Imagination

Perspectives from The Artist's Road

“The imagination retains a passion for freedom. There are no rules for the imagination. It never wants to stay trapped in the expected territories.
The old maps never satisfy it. It wants to press ahead beyond the accepted frontiers and bring back reports of regions
no mapmaker has yet visited”.

John O’Donohue

Wise words from a renowned poet, who generously shared with us his personal and profoundly beautiful discoveries while wandering in the realm of his own imagination. Without imagination there can be no art—it is the essential first step to the making of anything new. If artists are often stereotyped as being too dreamy or impractical about the business of living it may be because the job requires spending lots of time in our heads imagining a world not yet extant. We are comfortable there—even joyous. As John O’Donohue pointed out, there are no limits on us there.

Here are links to two of our favorite of O’Donohue’s inspiring books:

To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessi…