Quotes About Imagination

Living most of the time in a world created mostly in one's head, does not make for an easy passage in the real world.

The imagination should be allowed a certain amount of time to browse around.

Specificity of time and place drop away and one starts to think about the picture, as much as what it is of.

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here.

As a farm girl, even when I was quite young, I had my 'farm chores' - but I had time also to be alone, to explore the fields, woods and creek side. And to read.

Always time to dream, so keep on dreaming!

To create is, first and foremost, to create time.

Imagine a world in which there is no time. Only images.

Time does not exist - we invented it

When I am writing, I focus one hundred percent on my writing. Then, by the time I'm half way through the book, I'm already thinking about the ending.

You are an explorer. You understand that every time you go into the studio, you are after something that does not yet exist.

Strange thoughts brew in your heart when you spend too much time with old books

Writing is nothing less than thought transference, the ability to send one's ideas out into the world, beyond time and distance, taken at the value of the words, unbound from the speaker.

I want to point the way to something that should forever lure them, when the TV set is broken and the movie is over and the school bell has rung for the last time.

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

If I need a cause for celebration, Or a comfort I can use to ease my mind, I rely on my imagination, And I dream of an imaginary time.

A hope of something beyond our place and time. This is what books - the best books - give us: a lifeline, a reason to believe, a way to breathe more freely.

The roughest part for me when I'm writing a song is staring at a blank page. Where am I going from here? If you're a songwriter, you have to do that every time you start a song.

One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.

To read is to voyage through time.

Almost every scene, I re-think as Im about to start drawing it, and at least half of the time Im changing dialogue or whatever, or adding scenes or different things.

Without art we live under the illusion that there is only time, and not eternity.

When you meet someone for the first time instead of asking them what they do, you should ask them what they've always wanted to do. This conversation will be much more interesting.