Quotes About Imagination

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible ... what wine is so sparkling, so fragrant, so intoxicating, as possibility!

Prospect is often better than possession.

There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

We don't see many fat men walking on stilts.

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.

A dreamer-you know-it's a mind that looks over the edges of things.

My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive.

If a child is too keep alive his inborn sense of wonder ... he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

What some invent the rest enlarge.

Next to genius is the power of feeling where true genius lies.

If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchant-ments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things that are artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength.

The person who can combine frames of reference and draw connections between ostensibly unrelated points of view is likely to be the one who makes the creative breakthrough.

Imagination was given to us to compensate for what we are not; a sense of humor was provided to console us for what we are.

Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

If you believe, then you hang on. If you believe, it means you've got imagination, you don't need stuff thrown out on a blueprint, and don't face facts - what can stop you? If I don't make it today, I'll come in tomorrow.

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

You are the product of your own brainstorm.

If there is reincarnation, I'd like to come back as Warren Beatty's fingertips.

When ideas come, I write them; when they don't come, I don't.

The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.

Art, it seems to me, should simplify.

The simplest things give me ideas.