Quotes About Imagination

Believe me, nothing is more beautiful than to carry out crazy ideas. I'd like my whole life to be one single crazy idea.

Creativity runs on automatic, no matter what's happening in other parts of my life. I can't help myself. It's been in me, and it evolves in me over the years. It's a condition in me.

Life being what it is, one dreams not of revenge. One just dreams.

When life sucks, throw yourself into art.

We're all interested in life outside of Earth. We all have a fascination with what's out there because we don't really know.

I know it may sound silly, but I think my short stories have a life and identity of their own. They crop up in all sorts of places.

You know creators, composers, need a palette for life, a color for life.

Because art is life, playing to other rhythms.

Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.

Novels are longer than life.

You are living in a dream of your own creation. Let it be the dream of a lifetime, for that is exactly what it is.

Look to see what you most desire in your life, then ride that feeling all the way to creation.

It's hard to know whether certain characters come to life or not, they either come to have their own life or they don't. I've written many things in which the characters just remain inert.

While I find inspiration in real life, the actual stories are, thankfully, works of fiction - which, given the considerable turmoil in my character's lives, is probably a good thing!

What makes an actor, I think, is a combination of a deep curiosity about life and a case of the crazies.

I always viewed life as material for a movie.

Creativity in life is about saying yes to new ideas.

To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like

We find rhetorical situations everywhere in life, and only our imaginations can get us out of them.

I think the idea of Mary Poppins has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a window, all my life.

When you think about Walt [Disney]'s life, I don't know of anybody on Earth over the last hundred years who has touched as many people as he did. He's touched every nation on Earth.

I've spent much of my life being attuned to watching for an image or a phrase that can trigger what might be a poem - could become a poem.

When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.

The childhood scenes [ in The Tree of Life] are tremendous. My favorite moment is when the mother levitate - for three seconds. Of course, this is how a child thinks of his mother.