Quotes About Imagination

In the beginning God created" (Genesis 1:1), and every atom came from His imagination. I believe He made the world in such a way that to tend it, to touch it, would be to know His heart. He told a story into the earth, the tale of His bounteous heart. We were given the uplifted arms of pines and the vibrancy of a summer garden, the laden arms of apple trees and the dark patience of mountains, to keep us alive every day to all that God is and will continue to be.

Imagination is the first step to creation, the instigating spark that drives the actions of a hero.

Our student collects ideas, philosophy, facts, and stories. These synthesize and become foundations of their own mental library of the world.

You see, the what ifs are as boundless as the stars.

There are train-track thinkers, then there's you, Standish, a breeze in the park of imagination.

The floor had become a sea and the bed a ship, seen from a great distance. I could hear their voices calling me from far away. It lasted a minute or less. Maybe I dreamed it. Maybe I did not. It was an image that came to haunt me, and I have often wondered what would have happened if I had done as I was told and left the silver shoes alone. Would everything then have been alright?

Creo que lo mejor que tenemos en la vida es la imaginación y tú de eso tienes a montones.

Por un lado están los que piensan linealmente, y por otro lado estás tú, que eres como un golpe de brisa en el parque de la imaginación

In another country where the buildings don't stop rising until they pinthe clouds to the sky.

I'm wondering what if. What if the football hadn't gone over the wall. What if Hector had never gone looking for it. What if he hadn't kept the dark secret to himself. What if . . . Then I suppose I would be telling myself another story. You see, the what ifs are as boundless as the stars.

El planeta Juniper lo localicé yo solo. Lo encontré en mi cabeza.

I remember once giving my dad some drawings and writings and said, 'If you could just give these to the publisher, that would be great.' And I was about five!

Like all children, you would have loved and admired her. You would have named your favorite doll after her....And then you would have poked out the doll's eyes.

Part of the artist's job is to make the commonplace singular, to project a different interpretation onto the conventional.

The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter.

There's a lot about the character. It doesn't always happen, but there are some characters you really create a relationship with, almost as if they were your friend. And you never get into their heads again or think like them.

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

[H]e had a strange sense of being haunted, a feeling that the shades of his imagination were stepping out into the real world, that destiny was acquiring the slow, fatal logic of a dream. 'Now I know what a ghost is,' he thought. 'Unfinished business, that's what.'

Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be bloody-minded. Argue with the world. And never forget that writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things--childhood, certainties, cities, doubts, dreams, instants, phrases, parents, loves--that go on slipping , like sand, through our fingers.

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dali.

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.