Quotes About Imagination

I write about my life and my own experience, but I also write about things that I have no knowledge of whatsoever.

Born of the sensibility, art sows and creates life in its turn.

When you sleep, your dream world is as real to you as life, isn't it?

Faith is choosing and believing God's dream for your life. Nothing starts happening in your life until you start dreaming. God gave you the ability to dream, to create, to imagine.

Most of the songs I write just very directly from my life. I don't have a big imagination. Whenever I tried to write from fantasy, it comes out sounding really fake.

In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are empty.

An idea comes as near to something for nothing as you can get.

The thing about art is that life is in no danger of being meaningless.

A moment is a mighty thing Beyond the soul's imagination; For in it, though we trace it not, How much there crowds of varied lot How much of life, life cannot see, Darts onward to eternity!

In dreams you can become everything you're not. You can reverse the most fundamental truths of your life. You can taste death, the ultimate opposite.

Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life.

She smiled. "Life is full of stories. Or maybe life is only stories. Good night, my dear Nao.

No one in life can ever match fiction

Life is elsewhere. Cross frontiers. Fly away.

I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.

People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men.

Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new.

Finally, good sense is the body of poetic genius, fancy its drapery, motion its life, and imagination the soul that is everywhere and in each; and forms all into one graceful and intelligent whole.

You don't need to be famous to live a life as an artist.

So maybe it wasn't the fairy tale. But those stories weren't real anyway. Mine were.

It's like reading a book about a life that you will never occupy, but that's the beauty of being transported.

My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic life.

I like songs and film because you can turn your life into a sort of myth or dream.

I think that's what Dylan's trying to do: to create a space artistically where something else can take shape, can take life - where there's hope.