Quotes About Imagination

In the age of revolution you have to be able to imagine revolutionary alternatives to the status quo. If you can't, you'll be relegated to the swollen ranks of keyboard-pounding automatons.

I remember being in Hollywood at the age of 16 and marveling at the stars. The idea of being part of it never entered my mind. It was too far-fetched.

There were books everywhere in my house. Books were very present. I just loved books. I never understood reading as anything but a pleasurable activity from a very young age.

In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.

And what, for instance, would have happened had Romeo and Juliet lived to middle age, their silhouettes broadened by pasta?

Childhood has no necessary connection with age.

I chose to tell the story visually, so that anyone of any age, from any country, could understand it.

Ignore fact and reason, live entirely in the world of your own fantastic and myth-producing passions; do this whole-heartedly and with conviction, and you will become one of the prophets of your age.

I am totally convinced that most grown-ups have completely forgotten what is it like to be a child between the ages of five and then... I can remember exactly what it was like. I am certain I can.

I think from an early age I was aware of how a camera can tell a story, how a movie camera can affect how the narrative is told.

Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age my father was! [Laughter.] How can I be his age? It's weird.

I discovered at an early age that all I've ever wanted to do is design.

I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and that's why I always read books, and I could go to Mars or Middle Earth or the Hyborian age.

At a very early age I was attracted to light, as most children are.

I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody starts out, and by about the age of 10, that's been pretty effectively whipped out by education.

Avoid being a 'groan' up.

I was fascinated by movies from age 12.

I know that I was hiking at a very young age because I remember being convinced that it was the trees that were talking.

Knowing few children of my age with whom to compare notes, I envied the children of literature to whom interesting things were always happening.

Children's books have great potential to reveal new possibilities to readers, because the intended audience is at an age of genuine learning.

I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term.

I spent ages figuring out things like viewpoint, how you tell the story, and so on.

I am long on ideas but short on time. I expect to live only about a hundred years.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.