Quotes About Imagination

He who has no sympathy with myths has no sympathy with men.

My ability to make up lies on the spot chills me as much as it saves me.

I don't judge those who can't dream, those who need to pierce their arms to create different worlds under their skin, because I am fortunate in the tools of my escapes

Stop Sympathising. Start Visualising.

Life is about using the whole box of crayons.

Creativity is especially expressed in the ability to make connections, to make associations, to turn things around and express them in a new way.

In my world, everyone's a pony and they all eat rainbows and poop butterflies!

A major writer combines these three - storyteller, teacher, enchanter - but it is the enchanter in him that predominates and makes him a major writer.

I see the mind of the five-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and creativeness.

Teachers' using grades and the fear of failure mould the brains of the young until they have lost every ounce of imagination they might once have possessed.

Without the local library in my neighborhood, I don't think I would have grown up to be a writer or a teacher.

Creativity: Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.

The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination.

Film students should stay as far away from film schools and film teachers as possible. The only school for the cinema is the cinema.

I daydream about a high school where everybody plays the harmonica: the students, the teachers, the principal, the janitor and the cook in the cafeteria.

Growing up, I took so many cues from books. They taught me most of what I knew about what people did, about how to behave. They were my teachers and my advisers.

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

He thinks about his teacher in his literary class, he's staring at her legs.

The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave

When I was a kid, I got in trouble for lying a lot, and I had a teacher say, instead of lying, write it down, because if you write it down, it's not a lie anymore; it's fiction.

The teachers liked me. In grade school, they make you copy pictures from books. I think the first one was Robert Louis Stevenson.

I was 12 or 13 years old. So I started to write poetry and fiction, even though I was really into biology because my dad was a science teacher. I kept writing all those years.

My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts

My mother was a teacher, and when she wanted to show me art and literature and science, she'd take me to museums, parks and free exhibitions.