Quotes About Imagination

I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.

Art achieves all little things by absolute truth: but all her great things need some admixture of illusion.

I don't have a dream project. I don't really think in those terms, to tell you the truth.

The simple truth of things is that bad dreams are far better than bad wakings.

At the centre of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power

I love to invent - avoiding the truth. I need to dramatize.

there are elements of truth in all great fiction

One of the joys of writing music is making your own mark. Study other stuff, immerse yourself in music and then tell your own truth.

And truth severe, by fairy fiction drest.

A deeper truth the camera can see can be more surprising than even the director imagined it could be. That's a wonderful thing that grows and happens in films.

Fantasy plunders the well of our deepest selves for existent truth instead of creating new truths out of the illusory fabric of recent events or the flow of society.

In fiction I think we should have no agenda but to tell the truth.

My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone, Can make the truth known.

So vast, so limitless in capacity is man's imagination to disperse and burn away the rubble-dross of fact and probability, leaving only truth and dream.

Imagination, which in truth Is but another name for absolute power And clearest insight, amplitude of mind, And reason, in her most exalted mood.

Memoir is the art of inventing the truth.

Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.

It was fun to create characters who had truth to them but were also made up so as not to completely offend!

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.

Truth in her dress finds facts too tight. In fiction she moves with ease.

...he was after all, a novelist...and a novelist was simply a fellow who got paid to tell lies. The bigger the lies, the better the pay.

I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.

A story has value whether it's true or not.

Those who think only in straight lines cannot see around a curve.