Quotes About Imagination

A time will come when the eye of man will perceive colors as feelings within itself.

See the world as if for the first time; see it through the eyes of a child, and you will suddenly find that you are free.

Telling yourself you have all the time in the world, all the colors in the palette, that just kills creativity.

I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to.

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he saw it for the first time.

And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy.

I would spend my time telling stories or writing them.

One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time, in others' minds.

We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be.

The job of art is to turn time into things.

My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to sit back in England and watch a cricket game in Australia, they'd have you put in the loony bin.

There may be a time when we'll attend Weather Theaters to recall the sensation of rain.

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

The photographer must possess and preserve the receptive faculties of a child who looks at the world for the first time.

It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.

I think that it's a great time to be a designer.

Photography's like this baby that needs to be fed all the time. It's always hungry.

The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.

My idea of a good time is creating something and reading a good book.

I have a secret project which adds four hours every day to the 24 hours we have. There's a bit of time travel involved.

The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none left over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment.

When you're drawing comics, you get very involved in how the story is going to develop and you spend more time daydreaming on that particular subject.

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.