Quotes About Imagination

More of me comes out when I improvise.

If I could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint

The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.

Calico Jam,The little Fish swam,Over the syllabub sea.

The Owl and the Pussycat went to seaIn a beautiful pea-green boat,They took some honey, and plenty of money,Wrapped up in a five-pound note.The Owl looked up to the stars above,And sang to a small guitar,"O lovely Pussy! O Pussy, my love,What a beautiful Pussy you are."

The Owl and the Pussycat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat: They took some honey, and plenty of money Wrapped up in a five-pound note. . . They dined on mince and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon, The moon, The moon, They danced by the light of the moon.

They went to sea in a Sieve, they did, In a Sieve they went to sea: In spite of all their friends could say, On a winter's morn, on a stormy day, In a Sieve they went to sea!

Fish fiddle de-dee!

Tell it like it never really was and maybe we'll see it like it is.

You'd find ideas firing around like kernels in a popcorn machine:

Creativity, after all, does not happen on schedule or on demand. It

Ideas coming in spontaneous, erratic bursts.

we are often unable to stop the idea generation at night;

people with ADHD feel an abiding need—an omnipresent itch—to create something.

Even awake we're dreaming, always creating, always searching for some mud pie to turn into pumpkin apple chiffon.

This is truly a malfunction of the imagination, and it explains the confluence of the creative and depressive we so often see within the same person, even within the same hour.

As far as I can see, many people who don't have ADD are charter members of the Society of the Congenitally Boring. And

The great mathematician Alan Turing summed us up when he said, "Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine." That sums us up perfectly.

Worry is a special form of fear. To create worry, humans elongate fear with anticipation and memory, expand it in imagination, and fuel it with emotion.

Lots of kids who have ADD also have something else, something we don't have a name for, something good. They can be highly imaginative and empathic, closely attuned to the moods and thoughts of the people around them, even as they are missing most of the words that are being said.

Forgiveness takes intelligence, discipline, imagination, and persistence, as well as a special psychological strength, something athletes call mental toughness and warriors call courage.

At that moment Jack reached an insight, one he never forgot: a bee in a story could tickle worse than a real bee. He realized, too, that a story peach could be sweeter than a real peach, a story flower more fragrant than a real flower, a story song more melodious than a real song. What existed in a story could be more real than what existed in the world. And by reaching this insight, Jack understood the true power of his art.

I grew up on the golden age of children's TV.