Quotes About Imagination

They were using the dolls to project their dreams of their own futures as adult women.

Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don't settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.

Look wide, beyond your immediate surroundings and limits, and you see things in their right proportion. Look above the level of things around you and see a higher aim and possibility to your work.

Play is the work of the child.

If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean.

I used to work in a factory and I was really happy because I could daydream all day.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.

My work isn't about form. It's about seeing. I'm excited about seeing things, and I'm interested in the way I think other people see things.

The main purpose of my work is to provoke people into using their imagination and make their surroundings more exciting.

More important than a work of art itself is what it will sow. Art can die, a painting can disappear. What counts is the seed.

I had to work out that it was something that could move, without having everybody in spray painted leotards.

Dream beautiful dreams and then work to make those dreams come true.

My work is a game, a very serious game.

If "ifs" and "ands" were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands

You don't think your way to creative work. You work your way to creative thinking.

I never take any notes or draw charts or make elaborate diagrams, but I hold an image of the shape of a book in my head and work from that mental hologram.

All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction.

Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn't work.

Invent your world. Surround yourself with people, color, sounds, and work that nourish you.

The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.

To create a work of art is to create the world.

My favorite project is always the next one.

I cannot face with comfort the idea of life without work; work and the free play of the imagination are for me the same thing, I take no pleasure in anything else.