Quotes About Imagination

When I was a small child, I partially learned to read with comics, in particular with 'Scamp,' about the Lady and the Tramp's male child. That was the prime comic that made me fall in love with comics as a kid.

I loved Disney. 'Fantasia' was my first, favorite Disney movie. And it just kept going. I loved 'Bambi.' I loved 'Cinderella,' 'Lady and the Tramp' and 'Snow White' and even 'Mary Poppins' which wasn't even fully animated - it was just a little bit animated. They were such a part of my growing up years; I was just very connected to them.

I like to ground plays in reality so they can jump higher. So we can account for the trampoline, so we can account for the leap.

I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun.

Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.

The fact that 'Astro Boy' appealed to me as a boy in America was proof that the story and character transcend cultural stereotypes.

A good novel doesn't just transcend the boundaries of its target market - it knows nothing about target markets.

Reality has always been too small for the human imagination. We're always trying to transcend.

Not to be boxed in, to be able to transcend boundaries: for an artist, it's essential.

If I'm made to pick one transcendent reading experience, then it was listening to Miss Sarzin as - if we'd been very, very good - she read the next chapter of 'The Hobbit' aloud to us.

Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.

With correction, and given the chance, 'Terra Nova' can and will deliver seasons of transcendent images and story-telling. Failing to renew 'Terra Nova' is shortsighted, as myopic as it would have been to scrap the Hubble. 'Terra Nova' is the Hubble Telescope of television.

I know I'm not creating transcendent works that will someday be taught in college. All I do is entertain. I try to entertain others by sending them into another world for a few hours. When I see my books read on the beach, the pages dabbed with suntan lotion, then I feel as if I've done my job.

It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.

To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.

The great thing about science fiction is that it transcends national boundaries.

I want to continue to play characters that are not like me at all, and transform.

In fact, I want to be a Transformer as an adult. I would transform into a Gulf Stream 500.

Modeling is a lot of fun, but I prefer acting. It's so much fun to get to play different characters and transform into someone else for a while.

As we mature and grow older we collect a lot of baggage, and a lot of that stuff you collect on life's journey gets in the way of acting. My kids can imagine a character and transform in the blink of an eye. It's so simple for kids, so complex for adults.

I don't want to sound too Oprah-ish or anything like that, but I really believe that if you have the power to imagine particular things, you have the ability to transform them.

My mom was an artist, and she had this amazing ability to transform everything into something beautiful.

You can transform into any character of any age. It's all in the mind.

I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing.