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Quotes About Imagination

I have drawn all my life, I don't know how to live without drawing.
~ Eduardo Chillida
I had no night terrors. Maybe when your real life becomes the terror, there's just nothing left to dream about
~ Edward Bloor
Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.
~ Edward Hopper
What I have learned from my own experience is that the most important ingredients in a child's education are curiosity, interest, imagination, and a sense of the adventure of life.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
I cannot overstate the power of libraries in my life.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
There is in every human being, I think, a native country of the mind, where, protected by inaccessible barriers, the sensitive dream life may exist safely.
~ Ellen Glasgow
Poetry is the inner life of a culture, its nervous system, its deepest way of imagining the world. A culture that ignores its poets, chokes off its nervous system and becomes mortally ill.
~ Erica Jong
Life is whatever we conceive it to be.
~ Fernando Pessoa
the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.
~ Flannery O'Connor
The second I learned to read in first grade, when I was 5, I preferred it to life. And I still do.
~ Fran Lebowitz
Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had
~ Francis Bacon
Will something else. Have dreams and believe in them. They don't have to come true. They are just as true as a dream is. Life itself is a dream.
~ Frederick Lenz
The mind of the child is not formed. We are shown that this is life, this is the world.
~ Frederick Lenz
Someday you're really going to have to describe to me in more detail what life is like on the planet you live on. Because it sounds really great, and I'd like to visit there one day.
~ Meg Cabot
Lilly says I have an overactive imagination and a pathological need to invent drama in my life.
~ Meg Cabot
We find life in art and we find art in life!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Songs are snapshots of things - it's likened to looking at pictures. It will never feel like it felt in real life. When you look at it, it always feels different. It's sort of the same with songs.
~ Michael Benjamin Lerner
I thought, I fanced, that in a moment, I would be standing on nothing at all, and for the first time in my life, I needed the wings none of us has.
~ Michael Chabon
Sure, go ahead, simulate life, using only ink and paper.
~ Michael Cunningham
My favorite part is just being able to say and do things that you can't do in real life, and behaving in a way that's just not really acceptable, in the real world.
~ Michael Rapaport
One of the great things about acting is you can do things that in real life would get you in trouble. I think that's something I figured out pretty early on.
~ Michael Shannon
In general I'm more attached to a cinema that tries not to replicate the real world and life.
~ Miguel Gomes
We referenced fictional characters as if they were people to learn from. As if real-life people were too nebulous, too private and unreal for us to understand.
~ Miguel Syjuco
Life is composed of different inventions.
~ Mikhail Kalashnikov