Quotes About Imagination

Poesy is a part of learning in measure of words, for the most part restrained, but in all other points extremely licensed, and doth truly refer to the imagination; which, being not tied to the laws of matter, may at pleasure join that which nature hath severed, and sever that which nature hath joined, and so make unlawful matches and divorces of things.

A firewall cant stop an idea

As yet the few rule by their hold, not over the reason of the multitude, but over their imaginations, and their habits; over their fancies as to distant things they do not know at all, over their customs as to near things which they know very well.

The reason why so few good books are written is, that so few people who can write know anything. In general an author has always lived in a room, has read books, has cultivated science, is acquainted with the style and sentiments of the best authors, but he is out of the way of employing his own eyes and ears. He has nothing to hear and nothing to see. His life is a vacuum.

Why not leave the reading of great books till a great age? Why plague and perplex childhood with complex facts remote from its experience and inapprehensible by its imagination?

Growing up, I was into 'Power Rangers.'

A novel is not a rant.

Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places.

I always do my rap from the outside looking in. Like I do my rap as if I'm looking at me rap.

To me, sometimes things outside of rap inspire me to rap.

When I did rap and rhyme, it wasn't just a word that rhymed with another one.

There is rap music in all my films. In 'La Vie des Morts,' there is rap music too. It's because I'm French, and when it appeared in 1978, it was so new, it set off my musical imagination.

In kindergarten I had to draw a picture of what I wanted to be when I grew up. I drew a rapper. I didn't really know what a rapper was or what they did - I just wanted to do it.

In my head I'm a rapper, but I'm not!

As a child, I did not dream of being a rapper.

The best rappers I know are, like, air-conditioner men.

I think the best rappers practice concept albums in their work.

There are many ways to deal with annoying coworkers, but obviously the most effective way is to picture them as rappers. Picturing your coworkers as rappers makes you laugh and provides a helpful nickname that can be used when talking about them behind their backs.

I don't go in and just get to rapping off the dome. I think about it. I really think about it, especially when I make the story.

I often find myself writing little ditties I can imagine becoming rap songs. Not the actual rapping part, just the chorus.

When I was a kid, I was just rapping about school and stuff like that.

Walt Disney had a nuclear imagination before the advent of nuclear, some comprehension of apocalypse and rapture deep in his genes.

It's awesome to see something like 'Inception', which is just mind-blowing and amazing, and it actually resonates with the audiences. I feel like that's rare.

I always have a notebook with me, I eavesdrop; I write down what people say. It's very rare that one of those things will provoke a story, but I think that that kind of paying attention all the time, and keeping everything open, lets the stories come in. But where they come from is still a mystery to me.