Quotes About Imagination

An artist must be careful not to throw his ideas out with the trash.

Star Trek fans usually know the metaphors of life better than most mainstream poets.

Dreams are free, so free your dreams.

If you've got a poem within you today, I can guarantee you a tomorrow.

Angels will not disintegrate with logic, but they are more likely to fly for those who believe.

When painting, an artist must take care not to trap his soul in the canvas.

It's very strange when the life you never had flashes before your eyes.

When what you see in your imagination is bigger than what you see in your reality, you will begin to attract the ideas, opportunities, resources, faith and relationships necessary to pursue those dreams.

Your imagination is everything. It is a preview of life's coming attractions. ALBERT EINSTEIN

Cultivating your imagination is vital to shaping your life; and faith is a big part of doing that.

Make your dreams bigger than your memories

When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most publishers didn't have an adult fantasy list. They had science fiction lists, which they stuck a little bit of fantasy into.

Although I've written a few (a very few) poems over the years, I am not a natural poet...and I remain in awe of people who are. The ability to evoke deep emotion, reveal a new facet of the world, or condense an entire story into the limited space and form of a poem (or likewise, of a good song lyric, or the text for a children's picture book) seems like pure magic to me.

I find myself most drawn to: art that has arisen from a deeply personal conversation between the artist and the work at hand. It is art that walks perilously close to the Edge, that crosses the river of blood into Faerie, that flies so high it is scorched by the sun, and then returns to tell the tale to us. It is art that needed to be written, or painted, or sung, or woven, or otherwise shaped. It is art gifted by the Mystery to the maker...and then, in turn, gifted to us .

Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality -- for mine was a world in which good and evil were not abstract concepts, and like fairy-tale heroines, no magic would save me unless I had the wit and heart and courage to use it widely.

We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.

Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.

I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.

Visions of the entire Krusty Krab burning to the ground flashed through SpongeBob's fevered brain. If SpongeBob

Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination if the United States is one of the most venal nations on Earth, it is also one of the most earnestly idealistic.

I want this on my tombstone: Here lies Terry Gilliam--RIP--'He giggled in awe.

Well, I really want to encourage a kind of fantasy, a kind of magic. I love the term magic realism, whoever invented it – I do actually like it because it says certain things. It's about expanding how you see the world. I think we live in an age where we're just hammered, hammered to think this is what the world is. Television's saying, everything's saying 'That's the world.' And it's not the world. The world is a million possible things.

Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities.