Quotes About Imagination

Restraint offers a space between intention and action and the opportunity to protect others from actions or reactions that should exist only in your imagination

Art is childhood, after all," wrote Rilke

The greater part of our lives is spent with ourselves, no matter where or with what other people we may live . . . our imagination is the only companion chained to us for the whole of existence.' Charlotte Wolff

I came from a long line of dreamers, of storytellers, and the most dangerous stories we told were about ourselves.

imagine a scarf as an unlimited canvas

Sweaters need to be imagined, dreamed over.

it is pure potential. Every ball or skein of yarn holds something inside it, and the great mystery of what that might be can be almost spiritual

There's no reason for any of us to face reality if we don't like it.

How do we know imagination isn't just a different way of knowing something? A message from outside.

Sometimes an artist's first invention is herself.

Discipline is the concrete that allows you to be creative.' - Verna Gibson

Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

Let us learn to dream, gentlemen; then we shall perhaps find the truth.

There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

The exquisite truth is to believe in something that maybe you know is a fiction, but you believe in it willingly.

Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can't reach.

I'm not at all interested in painting the object just as it is in nature. Certainly I'm much more interested in the mood of a thing than the truth of a thing.

I'd like to study the drawings of kids. That's where the truth is, without a doubt.

I create situations that do not exist. I seek the truth from fiction.

The dreamer's untamed eye sees beyond the illusions to the heart of what is real.

Good books tell the truth, even when they're about things that never have been and never will be. They're truthful in a different way

Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen.