Quotes About Imagination

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

Think sideways!

My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.

Want, the mistress of invention.

One who has both feet firmly planted in the air.

Life is a handful of short stories, pretending to be a novel.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

Literature is my utopia.

All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.

What a man enjoys about a woman's clothes are his fantasies of how she would look without them.

The Right Honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

Sometimes I have believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

The sun gives us light, but the moon provides inspiration. If you look at the sun without shielding your eyes, you'll go blind. If you look at the moon without covering your eyes, you'll become a poet.

Remember, son, many a good story has been ruined by over-verification.

There are two parts to the creative endeavor: making something, then disseminating it.

Think of a fine painter attempting to capture an inner vision, beginning with one corner of the canvas, painting what he thinks should be there, not quite pulling it off, covering it over with white paint, and trying again, each time finding out what his painting isn't, until he finally finds out what it is. And when you finally do find out what one corner of your vision is, you're off and running.

God forgives those who invent what they need.

Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.

To most of us the real life is the life we do not lead.

A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse and dreams of home.

If I had my life to live over, I wish I could be a great pianist or something.

Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don't they try to understand the singing of birds? People love the night, a flower, everything that surrounds them without trying to understand them. But painting - that they must understand.