Quotes About Imagination

I would really like, in fact, to be born again in another two hundred years' time.

Down time is where we become ourselves... a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving of the wheels inside that fuel creativity.

I was meticulously copying other art and then I realized I could just use a camera and put my time into an idea instead.

The short-story writer knows that he can't proceed cumulatively, that time is not his ally. His only solution is to work vertically, heading up or down in literary space.

Like a ventriloquist who laughs at his dummy's jokes, I keep trying to make photographs that seduce me into believing in the image - all the time knowing better, but believing anyway.

Kitsch lends itself to a definition in terms of a systematic attempt to fly from daily reality: in time and in space.

I don't know why it is that I have always been happier thinking of somewhere I have been or wanted to go, than where I am at the time. I find it difficult to be happy in the present.

Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting and then the look of the handwriting.

Before you can read, you know the difference between a story and reality. And, of course, by the time you're old enough to do any real damage with an Uzi, you've learned that difference.

The best time to write a story is yesterday. The next best time is today.

As in, I think 'Badlands' is one of the funniest films of all time: "Every day I wish I was carried off to a magical land, but that never happened" is one of the funniest lines in any film.

We need to understand that every time an elementary teacher captures the imagination of a child through the arts or music of language this nation gets a little stronger.

It is cruelty to children to keep five-year-olds sitting still, gazing into vacancy even for one hour at a time. We have little idea of the torture we thus inflict.

Instead of using brushes all the time, try a palette knife to paint.

My muse must come to me on union time.

It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.

How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.

I call it like the domino theory of reality. If you can go one step at a time and it seems to make sense, you can then take your audience into an area that is relatively outlandish.

By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries.

I felt like time was a great sea, and I was floating on the back of a turtle, and no sails broke the horizon.

I'd much rather pretend I'm somewhere else, and any time I open the pages of a book, that happens.

Logical thinking keeps you from wasting time worrying, or hoping. It prevents disappointment. Imagination, on the other hand, only gets you hyped up over things that will never realistically happen.

If the gag is complicated, you spend more time thinking about the way you're drawing it.

I had some fears as a kid, but I was also relatively fearless. Maybe that's a result of living half the time in reality and the other half in fantasy.