Quotes About Imagination

Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one, and perhaps will.

I often wonder if there are certain areas of real life that are roped off, with a sign saying, "Art, don't come in here." But that's maybe a deeper question.

A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy. Others must outgrow it. Scientists can stay that way all their lives.

He is everything, everything, everything I ever admired and wanted and couldn't have. He is everything I needed and couldn't find in real life. Of course he is. That's why I invented him.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

I am concerned with a certain way of looking at life, which was created in me by the fairy tales, but has since been meekly ratified by the mere facts.

I think of clothes a lot like costumes. I think of what I wear in real life as being my real life character's costume.

The library takes me away from my everyday life and allows me to see other places and learn to understand other people unlike myself.

Baum (Writer of THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ) was a true educator, and those who read his Oz books are often made what they were not-imaginative , tolerant, alert to wonders, life.

I guess my inspiration is this - I like to pretend that every story that ever happened to 'Batman' was real and is part of this one guy's life.

If I had a dollar for every million-dollar idea I've had, I'd be rich.

What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they're sort of larger than life and I think I'm still suffering from that reaction.

Probably no one alive hasn't at one time or another brooded over the possibility of going back to an earlier, ideal age in his existence and living a different kind of life.

You're bigger than the toys. We are always bigger than the things we make. Put them away. Make something new with your life, with your own mind and hands.

Make something new with your life, with your own mind and hands.'

Things you create with your mind are always part of your postmortal life, whether they seem real or not.

As such, anything is always possible, even if your protagonist is a plumber. But it's the possibility, the limitless possibilities, of any fake life, that make writing about it so challenging.

With most of the events in the books [ Bridget Jones Diaries ] I draw a little bit from my own life and some from what I see happening around me.

One must envision the higher life and behave as if it were a fact before it can unfold.

The greatest tragedy in life is people who have sight but no vision.

Talk with M. Hermite. He never evokes a concrete image, yet you soon perceive that the more abstract entities are to him like living creatures.

I never read a novel, they have so little real life and thought in them.

Education must become central to any viable notion of politics willing to imagine a life and future outside of casino capitalism.

We must for dear life make our own counter-realities.