Quotes About Imagination

To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination.

Always be careful, my boy, what you make up. Life's more full of things made up on the Spur of the Moment than most people realize. Beware of the Spur of the Moment. It may turn and rend you.

I'm having the weirdest sense of deja vu right now," said the green caterpiller. Duh!" said the blue caterpiller. "Do you think, just maybe, that's because you predicted this?" Oh, yeah." --The Looking Glass Wars

Message From Mars Clifford D. Simak

Our reflections walked through them like ghosts that couldn't play.

Frank Cottrell Boyce

The mouse ducks (yes, actually ducks)

Tonight, I'm certainly going to tell you a story, but 'tis a story with a difference because, unlike virtually every other tale I tell-in this case, I was there. And yet I know that although I was there, and I saw people who were real, they have since become somewhat imagined-because I now view them through my memory. That's something every human being does-but storytellers live by it.

Someday Isle is not a dream vacation spot. It is an imaginary destination to which you will never arrive. It is the carrot on the stick perpetually in front of you. So close you can see it, yet you will never reach it. Don't vacation on Someday Isle.

I've always believed that if you know what you're going to do, you won't do it. Your creativity starts with your curiosity.

Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man.

If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets.

It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions.

There are no shortcuts in life - only those we imagine.

Let's be honest. We all in our secret minds live elsewhere, or who could survive in this freakin' world?

Space is the breath of art.

Fear begets fiction and fiction gives a shape to fear

You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

It's lovely to know that the world can't interfere with the inside of your head.

Keep scribbling! Something will happen.

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Comics are so full of amazing work. And I can't look at a drawing of a woman without thinking of, for instance, Wallace Wood and his amazing way of capturing beauty.

I'm a comic book artist. So I think to myself, what do I like to draw? I like to draw hot chicks, fast cars and cool guys in trench coats. So that's what I write about.

What's happened with computer technology is perfectly timed for someone with my set of skills. I tell stories with pictures. What I love about CGI is that if I can think it, it can be put on the screen.