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Quotes About Imagination

Sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person-and write to that one.
~ John Steinbeck
We are such stuff as dreams are made on and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
~ William Shakespeare
A lot of things you see as a child remain with you... you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience.
~ Tim Burton
You know, artists don't really have all that much experience of life. We make a huge amount out of the small experience that we do have.
~ John Banville
The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings.
~ Stella Adler
You have to really use your imagination to refresh your daily life.
~ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Ideas come from ordinary, everyday life. And from imagination. And from feelings. And from memories. Memories of dust in my sneakers and humming whitewalls down a hill called Monkey.
~ Jerry Spinelli
Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.
~ Bill Hicks
In your imagination, you can perfect things in a way you can't do in your everyday life.
~ Washed Out
You know what's better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.
~ Ryan Holiday
A-POC unleashes the freedom of imagination. It's for people who are curious, who have inner energy - the energy of life and living.
~ Issey Miyake
As an actor you have to have a strong vivid imagination as you're working and when the camera's rolling, but there's certainly a part of you that is aware of real life, that you're making a movie.
~ John Hawkes
The thing is that as you grow through life, the pursuit of art and the pursuit of new ideas, all these things keeps your mind elastic.
~ Patti Smith
Nobody's life is as romantic as it is in fiction.
~ Ruth Glick
Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my head all the time. I still think the very greatest pleasure in life is to write a poem.
~ Claire Tomalin
The dream, alone, is of interest. What is life, without a dream?
~ Edmond Rostand
I'm watching a dream I'll never wake up from.-Spike Speigel
~ Keiko Nobumoto
Write it as a dream, read it as a goal.
~ Sakurai Sho
Your imagination can take you to the best and worst places. It is a ship on a sea of dreams and it's up to you to steer it.
~ Aliya Whiteley, The Beauty
Dreams are what gives us insight into what may be if we have the get up and go to do it.
~ Anthony T. Hincks
And anyway, once you allowed yourself to picture such a scenario, it couldn't happen. That was just the way life went.
~ J. Courtney Sullivan, Maine
Many of us live the lives to follow others dreams, we rarely create and follow our own imaginations and dreams.
~ raja shakeel mushtaque
Let's dream about a place where dreams are born.
~ Crestless Wave
My dreams are crowded with people, as though to compensate for the solitariness of my waking hours.
~ Anna Lyndsey, Girl in the Dark