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Quotes About Imagination

The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
The imagination, once awakened, must and will work, and ought to work
~ Harriet Martineau
When you're around kids you can be a little kid yourself and pretend that life is magic and you don't have to be one of those sweaty people going to work every day.
~ Amy Winehouse
A work of art doesn't dare you to realize it. It germinates and gestates by itself.
~ John Huston
A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.
~ Hans Hofmann
I don't wait for inspiration. I'm not, in fact, quite sure what inspiration is, but I'm sure that if it is going to turn up, my having started work is the precondition of its arrival.
~ Quentin Blake
I am interested only in the unknown and I work for my own astonishment.
~ Roberto Matta
We do not create the work. I believe we, in fact, are discoverers.
~ Glenn Murcutt
Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.
~ Man Ray
Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work.
~ Nick Cave
I don't work from nature, I work like nature.
~ Pablo Picasso
I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops.
~ Odilon Redon
A writer's work is the product of laziness.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Play is a child's work and this is not a trivial pursuit.
~ Alfred Adler
Lucifer is the patron saint of the visual arts. Color, form - all these are the work of Lucifer.
~ Kenneth Anger
Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.
~ Naguib Mahfouz
Finding the medium that excites your imagination, that you love to play with and work in, is an important step to freeing your creative energies.
~ Ken Robinson
When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom, the work is likely to sprawl.
~ T. S. Eliot
Thats the way I work: I try to imagine what I would like to see.
~ Sofia Coppola
They work now with computers for building buildings and books, but not ever with new ideas.
~ Emil Ruder
Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep.
~ Catherine O'Hara
Disneyland is not just another amusement park. It's unique, and I want it kept that way. Besides, you don't work for a dollar - you work to create and have fun.
~ Walt Disney
The illusion of life is crucial for the work, otherwise the ideas wouldn't be able to jump across, people wouldn't engage with it.
~ Patricia Piccinini
When I'm looking for an idea, I'll do anything--clean the closet, mow the lawn, work in the garden.
~ Kevin Henkes