Quotes About Imagination

In the rush of daily living it's easy to forget all the remarkable people, real or fictional, who have been a part of your life. But if you just imagine they are near for a moment, you will realize that anyone who ever touched your heart is always with you, patiently waiting to emanate warmth and support whenever you remember to think of them.

Orthodox criticism ... is a murderer of talent. And because the most modest and sensitive people are the most talented, having the most imagination and sympathy, these are the first ones to get killed off.

The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from the richness of individual lives.

We want to create an atmosphere in which creation is possible.

Humour is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Every time a man puts a new idea across he finds ten men who thought of it before he did - but they only thought of it.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. Remy de Gourmont An idea is salvation by imagination.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

The material universe exists only in the mind.

With enough 'ifs' we could put Paris into a bottle.

Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years.

Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible.

To be truthful, when I'd be on the bus when I was a little kid, like fourth, fifth grade, we'd always be free-styling and playing around.

As an actor, I believe that acting is actually behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.

That suspension of disbelief that's required as an actor to live truthfully in imaginary circumstances is different to what needs to happen as a director, in the sense that you are the master of all the moving parts. You create the world in every detail.

In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives.

Contrary to the popular misconception, the actor is not necessarily a specialist in imitating or portraying what he knows about other people. On the contrary, the actor may simply be a person who's more willing than others to reveal some truths about himself.

Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.

The make-believe world of 'The Black Tower' succeeds by broadcasting larger truths that might otherwise elude us.

I was always at heart a novelist and wanted to tell a bigger story, so I wanted to create people who told other kinds of truths than literal truths.

I always say that I don't believe I'm a chef. I try to be a storyteller.

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.