Quotes About Imagination

What limits people is lack of character. What limits people is that they don't have the fucking nerve or imagination to star in their own movie, let alone direct it.

You dig me, don't you? A little boy, he can play like he's a fireman or a cop

Muddy Waters he play in the river Joan Rivers she play in the mud Swami guru play in a big salad bowl Counting lettuce and chewing his cud

That's the value of artists, isn't it? Even when they aren't aware of it, they're dreaming our dreams for us.

Marx Marvelous is going to break the genius machine when he grows up. That's what everyone said. He hasn't, of course.

On where imagination comes from: "I think it comes from fairies … certain children are visited by a fairy in their cradle, and are tapped on their forehead with a small but luminous wand. After that, even all the forces in our culture, and there are many, are unable to totally subdue it.

The one thing emphasized in any creative writing class is, 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through imagination. If they really understood the mysterious process of creating fiction, they would say, 'You can write anything you can imagine.

Everyone knows that ghosts don't piss!

that aspect of being that once was attuned to wonder.

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

Perhaps the most terrible (or wonderful) thing that can happen to an imaginative youth, aside from the curse (or blessing) of imagination itself, is to be exposed without preparation to the life outside his or her own sphere- the sudden revelation that there is a there out there.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

When people discuss his plays, he says that he feels like he's standing at customs watching an official ransack his luggage. He cheerfully declares responsibility for a play about two people, and suddenly the officer is finding all manner of exotic contraband like the nature of God and identity, and while he can't deny that they're there, he can't for the life of him remember putting them there. In the end, a play is not the product of an idea; an idea is the product of a play.

Fantasy flows in where fact leaves a vacuum.

Before Plato could describe love, the loved one had to be invented. We would never love anybody if we could see past our invention. Bosie is my creation, my poem. In the mirror of invention, love discovered itself.

Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does.

Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.

You're a writer. You write because you're a writer. Even when you write about something, you have to think up something to write about just so you can keep writing.

After Magritte often serves as a companion piece to The Real Inspector Hound, which I think is appropriate in at least one way: neither play is about anything grander than itself. A

Yes, I think you're the first person to think of this.

Literature is not always a voluntary act

One shouldnt ask oneself how a person flies or why, but simply start flying.

in desperate need of an infusion of a sense of the possible.

If I write a book I do it mostly for myself for the child in me and for the adult in me. The criterion for my children's books is: If I were a child would I like it That's very egotistical but it's the same thing with my books for adults. I wouldn't do a book if I didn't want to partake and share. With a book I can do both: I give and I share.