Quotes About Imagination

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

Adults are obsolete children...

If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society.

My childhood may be over, but that doesn't mean playtime is.

But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

This little insect of the poets...

Ladybugs all dressed in red Strolling through the flower bed. If I were tiny just like you I'd creep among the flowers too!

The library lets you borrow the beauty and keep the knowledge.

If you haven't owed a library fine at least once in your life, you're not a real reader.

Linus: Just think, Charlie Brown… my own library card! Charlie Brown: I hope you make good use of it by taking out all the books you can read. Linus: I suppose that would be more practical... I was thinking of having it framed!

To drink the sunshine and to dream at night...

In the line of Emerson and Whitman, Phelps strongly asserts the need for the poet to listen, to feel, to touch, to learn to see. Love is a magician, it is Merlin. It changes the drabness of everyday, unfetters the soul and the imagination, transcends reality. It is an escape from the self... ethereal butterflies alight gently on the very essence of the feeling.

Fill paper as you please with triangles and squares...

Each man's memory is his private literature, and every recollection affects us with something of the penetrative force that belongs to the work of art.

Dawn is a friend of the muses.

Mommies are just big little girls.

Art and composition tolerate no conventional fetters: mind and soul soar above them.

I'm one of those people, who when I draw birds I just draw flying mustaches.

There are worlds in an opal.

Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.

Little Mary was visiting her grandmother in the country. Walking in the garden, she chanced to see a peacock, a bird she had never seen before. After gazing in silent admiration, she ran quickly into the house and cried out: "Oh, Granny, come and see! One of your chickens is in bloom."

She smelled Roy before she saw him. She liked to imagine that it was the perfume of his good heart.

PHOTOGRAPH, n. A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

Maps are a way of organizing wonder.