Quotes About Imagination

My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.

I guess I'd like to be known for being an innovator, fostering creativity, thinking outside the box. You know, keeping people playful.

Dinosaurs are the jumper cables to the human mind. Kids can't curb their enthusiasm when they're in a hall of dinosaurs and mammoths and mammoth hunters and trilobites and giant fish that could chomp up a shark. These natural objects in motion and context make kids want to read; you can't stop them from reading and thinking.

Space has always fascinated me. As a young boy looking up at the stars, I found it impossible to resist thinking what was out there and if I ever would experience space first-hand.

It's not my job to tell people what to think. If I can actually in some way help the readers' own creative thinking, then that's got to be to everybody's benefit.

I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.

It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.

I'm an actor, and I keep observing people and their reactions to figure out what they are thinking. There's only so much you can do on your own, so you have to keep learning. Art imitates life.

Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.

I was 7, and I remember being given a part in a play and thinking, This is exciting.

I want people to be transported by the hotel. I'm thinking, What is it that would make people be delighted and amazed?

I want to stay ahead and to stay ahead you always have to be thinking out of the box.

Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives.

Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.

Every child thinks archaeology is about digging up land to find dinosaur remains and gold. I had the same intentions.

Everyone thinks I live alone, but I don't. My characters all live with me.

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

'We need a guy who plays dodge ball and thinks he's a pirate - get me Alan Tudyk on the phone!' Those are the jobs I do.

A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.

Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

If a novelist tells you something she knows or thinks, and you believe her, that is not because either of you think she is God, but because she is doing her work - as a novelist.