Quotes About Imagination

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

At the cinema, we do not think - we are thought.

They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.

To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.

I thought I would be a guy on the radio.

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.

I feel very lucky to make a living from my imagination; I'm very grateful for that. I like that what I do is create. I'm feeling very lucky to have had the career I had. It's gone much longer and bigger than I ever thought it would be.

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought.

The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.

I started making houses for ants because I thought they needed somewhere to live. Then I made them shoes and hats. It was a fantasy world I escaped to where my dyslexia didn't hold me back and my teachers couldn't criticize me. That's how my career as a micro-sculptor began.

When I was a little boy in school I had to dress up as a bunny and there's a picture of me with an annoyed face, and when I saw it, I thought I should name myself 'Bad Bunny.'

I never thought I'd say this, but to any child listening, the world is your oyster.

If I start playing by the rules, I will inhibit myself of the possibilities that lie beyond. I don't like to be framed or given borders to operate in or curtail my thought process and as a writer it's not only my choice but also my need to go beyond the given framework.

Try to imagine that you're the strongest, most noble, most thoughtful, most compassionate, intelligent person in the world, and pretend to be that. Speak from that place. It's more than self-awareness; it's the ability to access this super-intelligence.

When I was filming, I imagined that Legolas was a meditative character who was very thoughtful and had a certain amount of depth to him. I started working on trying to find this focus that Legolas has, which wasn't really like me.

A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.

The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.

Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.

Everything starts with a thought. Your thoughts become things, and anything that your mind can conceive, you can achieve.

A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.

I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere.

My thoughts can sometimes be spurred by what I read, but my reading is extremely eclectic.

That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.