Quotes About Imagination

The true enemy of this bunch was not State Power but Lack of Imagination.

Your readers have seen a sky with one moon in it any number of times, right? But I doubt they've seen a sky with two moons in it side by side. When yoy introduce things that most readers have never seen before into a piece of fiction, you have to describe them with as much precision and in as much detail as possible. What you can eliminate from fiction is the description of what most readers have seen.

In the middle distance, sails were gliding like butterflies, and farther away, ships dotted the mouth of the bay between Awa and Sagami as if brushed in ink in a single flowing stroke.

People peep into boxes at moving stereoscopic prints, imagining they're in other worlds, and the crowd around a glassblower wonders whether icicles have formed in summer. Potted trees revive and suddenly look fresh when a florist sprinkles water on them, while papier-mâché turtles hanging out for sale move in the wind and take on souls.

I believe that visualization is one of the most powerful means of achieving personal goals.

Dana's house could have been cut from a magazine, the kind of home that tells a story, even though no one lives in it.

My process is thinking, thinking and thinking - thinking about my stories for a long time.

Utopia exists only in one's childhood life.

To have a film where there's an evil figure and a good person fights against the evil figure and everything becomes a happy ending, that's one way to make a film. But then that means you have to draw, as an animator, the evil figure. And it's not very pleasant to draw evil figures

Today, all of humanity's dreams are cursed somehow. Beautiful yet cursed dreams.

Of course I believe that other world exists. If they didn't life wouldn't be interesting. It's like love: you can't see but it exists-simply because you believe it. It's just a matter of believing.

Basically, I think I just want them to know that the world is deep and filled with variety. That there are infinite possibilities in the world they live in and that they are a part of this world. Perhaps it's enough just to say that the world is rich and precious and that they hold it in their hands. I honestly made this film just wanting to tell these young girls, "Don't worry, you can make it all right.

I have a strong desire to be liberated from being tied down to reality.

No puedo quedarme sentado en mi escritorio. Las ideas vienen de lo inesperado.

inspiration unlocks the future

If I were asked my view, in a nutshell, of what animation is, I would say it is what ever I want to create.

No, you can just paint me walking into shadows.

Storyboards augment the scenario, expand on its intent, and exist to be analyzed and eventually revised.

Si no tenemos imaginación, capacidad para imaginar realidades fantásticas, estaremos más a merced de una realidad demasiado cruel.

Historians are concerned with events which can be assigned to specific timespace locations, events which are (or were) in principle observable or perceivable, whereas imaginative writers – poets, novelists, playwrights – are concerned with both these kinds of events and imagined, hypothetical, or invented ones.

Some people look for a beautiful place, others make a place beautiful.

humans deserve a night sky, a sky full of possibilities—sometimes of clouds, often the moon, occasionally planets, nearly always stars and the Milky Way in which we live.

If they wanted to have time to read a book in the evenings, that was as important as any of Napoleon's ambitions. Because what a triumph it was for any woman to have time for herself—and to be able to do something that benefitted her imagination alone.

I closed my eyes and the roof was gone. I could see the stars while the piano tinkled. I could see Jupiter and it was blue, and Neptune was silver like a tennis ball sprayed silver. I could reach out and touch it, like cold water.