Quotes About Imagination

What you see determines how you interpret the world, which in turn influences what you expect of the world and how you expect the story of your life to unfold.

Pictures of my life stretch back into what must have been my very earliest childhood. ... They are not movies, then, nor are they talkies, but they are quite distinctly feelies.

Realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art.

Here's one more from my limited experience with all 3 fields: A writer creates life; a poet creates magic from life; a philosopher tries to understand life.

While we do not need art to live, I couldn't imagine a life without it.

I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life with a variety of convenient fictions.

There is this assumption that much of what I write is about my life, and that simply is not true.

I took my children to see 'Son of Rambow,' about two boys who make a home movie with a video camera. When you have children, culturally you become involved in their life.

Not writing would be like going the rest of your life without having dreams.

I hardly ever read mainstream fiction that deals with life as it is. I like an element of fantasy, something that isn't quite of the real world.

The world is full of horror. Our imaginations struggle to keep up. It would be a poor life without imagining. I'm not sure we can have any salvation, in fact, without imagining.

In life you can get a feeling which is part of a person, the same as in the songs. Music is almost our representation of our fantasies and so our songs are representations of our fantasies.

Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme.

You put his brain in a bird, the bird would fly backwards" -Secret Life of the Bees

One can know worlds one has not experienced, choose a response to life that has never been offered, create an inwardness utterly strong and fruitful.

Life would be so much easier if fictional boys were real.

Every photo is almost a fiction or a dream. If it's really good, it's another form of life.

We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine.

When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess.

Having room to run and having just the space to use your imagination and create stories out of everyday life, I think that had a lot to do with me wanting write. And write songs

I am always writing music. I have got unlimited ideas because I have been clean and sober for my entire life.

I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing.

How do we not rue the many unchosen paths in life? A blessed lack of imagination. There are enough real glories along any path to swamp our meager ability to picture alternatives.

I've certainly collaborated with others for their songs and it's fun. To me, it's exciting to write from a place that doesn't have to be so true to my life and is more just storytelling.