Quotes About Imagination

One of my favorite things about doing movies is that you get to do different things you'd never do in real life.

Reality always outstrips fiction. Whatever you make up, something more incredible always pops up in real life.

All these things that crib and cab in your brain, in your imagination, are in fact things that might well in later life drive you insane.

Not sure how I feel about reality. I'm going to begin purchasing stuffed animals and endowing them with the qualities people in my life lack.

In the places I go there are things that I see that I never could spell if I stopped with the Z.

If you'd never been born, then you might be an Isn't! An Isn't has no fun at all. No, he disn't.

Imagination of my kind is most caught, most fired, most worked upon by the unfamiliar: I have thrivenon the changes and chances, the dislocations andcontrasts which have made up so much of my life.

All it takes to become an Artist is to start doing Art. By living a life full of Art, we may achieve an Artful life.

Poetry and imagination begin life. A child will fall on its knees on the gravel walk at the sight of a pink hawthorn in full flower, when it is by itself, to praise God for it.

When we dream, we create. All of life is a dream or a series of waking dreams. We dream our surroundings. We dream our friends, our relations. We dream our bodies. We dream our dreams.

I think the story of 'Alice in Wonderland' in a way is a reminder that life is frightening, it can shift on you at any moment.

I've always been really hot on westerns. All my life growing up, cowboy, cowboy, cowboy.

Anything and everything you can think of can turn your life around.

Possibly the most interesting first impression of my life came from the world of dreams.

Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them.

I think I have learned to really get out of the mathematical side of myself that looks at story and story structure and go with, "Okay, well, what would people do in real life?"

You take the books, you lie there in the pools of light and you drink life. That is how intensely I have loved libraries.

In the end, no thought is unthinkable, no problem unshrinkable, no two strangers unlinkable.

A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.

Well, I don't even know how to drive in this life, so I'm pretty far from ever having the life of being a stuntdouble. I liked- I had an Evil Knievel doll when i was a kid, that's about it!

I don't want to write my life. I live my life. I want to make up a new world.

Life is short, he thought. Art, or something not life, is long, stretching out endless, like [a] concrete worm. Flat, white, unsmoothed by any passage over or across it.

The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.

Art is doing. Art deals directly with life.