Quotes About Imagination

Sometimes fantasies are better than life.

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

For me they are no different, reality and dreams.

Reality doesn't have to be plausible. Reality can be as preposterous as it pleases.

Reality can be elastic, and I want to see how elastic it can be, you know?

I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It's best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

Fantasy Man's my favourite, I think, because he's sort of like Don Quixote. He lives in a fantasy world, but he gets jolted back into reality, and I guess that's me, really!

Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.

This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence.

Losing a fantasy is much harder than losing a reality.

Don't use your words to describe your reality. Use your words to create your desired reality.

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

By making pictures, you learn the many different properties of photography. I use those properties differently than, say, an advertising agency would, but we're both operating in the same reality. A face painted by Picasso occupies the same reality as a portrait by Stieglitz.

My goal is to create a metaphor that changes our reality by charming people into considering their world in a different way.

Non-fiction or documentaries can tell any kind of a story because they don't have to adhere to the rules of what's possible. When you're making something up, you have to say, 'Well, this is what would happen here,' but in reality, stuff happens that seems impossible.

A dream will not become an innovation if there is no realization.

If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.

Sometimes when I'm at my desk, I'll realize that I have contorted myself completely, and I haven't moved for hours, and that my legs have fallen asleep. I am elsewhere, not in my body, not in the room, not in my house.

What SF can do better than anything else is show us the range of our possible futures, and what we can do to realize the good ones and avoid the nasty ones.

It occurred to me the thing that broke my heart the most was when I grew up and realized everything wasn't an adventure. I got to a certain age and realized I couldn't be Indiana Jones.

I quickly realized I live the least interesting literary life imaginable. My parents are happily married. There haven't been any major traumas. I'm not sure that the story of my life would be much fun to read.

My special thing as a kid was to play dead because I thought I was really good at it. When I was 7 or 8, I even did it in the bathroom with a hair dryer in the bathtub. I realized that I was good at it because each time my mom would scream.