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Quotes About Imagination

If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.
~ Frederick Buechner
The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.
~ Marilyn Monroe
The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin even, or even different parts of the same continuum, but rather, they are manifestations of the same thing. The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.
~ Mae Jemison
I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new.
~ Ernst Haas
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
~ Lewis Carroll
To me, the writer's main job is to just make the story unscroll in such a way that the reader is snared - she's right there, seeing things happen and caring about them. And if you dedicate yourself to this job, the meanings more or less take care of themselves. That's the theory, anyway.
~ George Saunders
The arts stimulate imagination. They provoke thought. And then, having done that, all sorts of other things happen.
~ Melvyn Bragg
I start with a character and a situation, but I don't know what's going to happen until I write it. Sometimes things happen that surprise me.
~ Louis L'Amour
There's a logic to dreams that doesn't necessarily follow linear narrative. You don't know why things happen, it's your subconscious pushing you, to give you information.
~ Justin Theroux
I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life.
~ Dodie Smith
All I need is a camera and I'll make things happen.
~ Keenen Ivory Wayans
Things happen to all of us. The writer's job is to get you interested.
~ Max Apple
I don't work in a straight line. I don't write with an outline. I write where I can see things happen, and then things get glued together.
~ Diana Gabaldon
I write where I can see things happen, and then things get glued together. I do have the final scene, but that really is an epilogue. It's not part of the plot.
~ Diana Gabaldon
There's nothing sadder than when things happen the way you've planned them, because we don't have a lot of imagination, you know.
~ Robert Lepage
Whether good or bad things happen, music allows you to separate yourself from reality a bit.
~ HoYeon Jung
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
I think we all need to be able to dream in all colors.
~ Victor J. Glover
I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults.
~ Shigeru Miyamoto
The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.
~ David Bohm
Modeling, for me, isn't about being beautiful but creating something interesting for people to look at and think about.
~ Kylie Bax
Pizza makes me think that anything is possible.
~ Henry Rollins
I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
~ Bill Gates
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
~ John Dalberg-Acton