Quotes About Imagination

I'm working on a snow scene right now, and it's summer. It's hot, and I will get chilly. I'll have to turn on the heat. My wife walks in, and it's 95 degrees in the studio. I know it's nutty, but it's a projection you have where you step into the painting.

Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.

So, you pick this stuff here and this stuff there and then you see things in certain ways and you start visualizing and thank God I get the chance to do this. It's really the greatest thing in the whole wide world.

On Wednesday afternoons I could be practically anything.

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.

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

The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.

At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.

Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older.

If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand total of 3,900 books, a little over one-tenth of 1 percent of the books currently in print.

I learned at an early age that I could make the things that I wanted. That's a very powerful thing to realize as a kid. LEGOs were a key part of that.

I think age is terribly overrated. You're okay as long as you don't grow up. By all means grow old, but don't mature. Remain childlike, retain wonder, the ability to be flabbergasted by something.

From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn't doing something creative.

As far as I'm concerned playing 'Dress Up' begins at the age of five, and never truly ends.

When you're supported by people, you always imagine it's people your age who will support you.

Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.

From a very young age, stories fuelled my imagination in the most wonderful way.

Playing dress up begins at age 5 and never really ends.

We're past the age of heroes and hero kings. ... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it's up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting.

It was like seeing Bill Gates at age thirteen, times two. And half of him was wearing a cheerleader uniform. Yes, I know that's a weird image.

Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections.

Now we are living in the age of comics as air

I got in touch with the creative process between the age of 14 and 16, mainly because I was alone so much.

In a dream you are never eighty.