Quotes About Imagination

Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.

For me that's the magic of the printed page - we don't have to pay attention to the passage of time and focus in on the realities of these characters at a specific age or at a specific time in their lives, and we can play with that to our hearts' content.

There are just certain realities about our world and I just happen to be creative within it.

Our dreaming capacity gives us a peep into the glorious realities that await us further on. It is the evidence of things possible to us.

However dark, however demanding the realities of existence are, artists provide the lift, the light, the ways to make it through. They help us find the joys and delights, the hopes we need for our days and hours. I am grateful for their gifts.

Children have a very good idea of how to distinguish between fantasies and realities. It's just they are equally interested in exploring both.

I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just a long narrative form. What you use that long narrative form for can be very different.

I'm interested in people forging their realities.

The power of fantasy is that you can make people understand the deeper realities of our world in a way that they wouldn't normally be able to because of all the things in our world that closes them off.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

Imagination creates reality.

I don't want to do animation to mimic reality. I want to push reality.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

Poetry is the deification of reality.

My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.

Dreams become reality when we put our minds to it.

For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do.

There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream.

I prefer to live in my own little bubble of my own reality.

I'm not that interested in recreating reality. I'm interested in recreating an emotional truth.

Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.

If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility.

It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.