Quotes About Imagination

Disneyland is a work of love...Drawing up plans and dreaming of what I could do, everything. It was just something I kind of kept playing around with.

Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

Some people say video games rot your brain, but I think they work different muscles that maybe you don't normally use.

My work is about seeing - seeing things like they haven't been seen before.

Readers themselves, I think, contribute to a book. They add their own imaginations, and it is as though the writer only gave them something to work on, and they did the rest.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

I try to create paintings that are a window for the imagination. If people look at my work and are reminded of the way things once were, or perhaps, the way they could be, then I've done my job.

...If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. (151)

The pictorial work was born of movement, is itself recorded movement, and is assimilated through movement (eye muscles).

What if the primary work of education was the transforming of our imagination rather than the saturation of our intellect?

All creative work begins by doing something with the hands. Creation is simply a problem and design is the way out.

One works without thinking how to work.

Syzygy, inexorable, pancreatic, phantasmagoria - anyone who can use those four words in one sentence will never have to do manual labor.

Our thoughts, or in other words, our state of mind, is ever at work 'fixing up' things good or bad in advance.

To work on the actual location I think is great. This thing of going to Canada and pretending you're in New York, it's terrible.

Alekhine is a poet who creates a work of art out of something that would hardly inspire another man to send home a picture post card.

My hand does the work and I dont have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. Its like a dam in the brain that bursts.

No one can quite say what the creative process is. Because I have nothing to do with it of course. It's created in space. It's God's work, not mine.

Sometimes the best part of my day is imagining what I'm gonna eat when I get off work.

I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.

I must always have a clear image of the form of a work before I begin. Otherwise there is no impulse to create.

Reality is broken and we need to make it work more like a game.

The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality.