Quotes About Imagination

I like to keep the median age in my lab low because they will indulge me in my dreams. They don't yet think things are impossible.

When I think of my dad as a little boy I tend to think of him in black and white.

I'm sixty-five but if there were fifteen months in every year I'd only be forty-eight.

The Polar Express began with the idea of a train standing alone in the woods. I asked myself, What if a boy gets on that train? Where does he go?

The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library

I'm gonna go live in a cave, just completely live in my interior world.

...to all the monsters in my nursery: May you never leave me alone.

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

To be creative you must create a space for yourself where you can be undisturbed... separate from everyday concerns.

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.

We're no longer bored - in fact we're petrified of being alone with ourselves getting bored. Yet boredom is the foundation for creativity - an asset slowly disappearing from our world.

With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.

I don't know myself, what to do, where to go... I lie in the crack of a book for my comfort... it's what the world offers... please leave me alone to dream as I fancy.

The question is being asked, 'Are we alone?' And though we now focus on that question we need to think beyond that to what if we're not alone? Then what becomes the next imperative question?

Living alone, you can do so many fantastic things I've learned. You can like, walk around and have so many conversations with yourself and sing your thoughts. I think I'm the only one that does that.

For me alone Don Quixote was born and I for him. His was the power of action, mine of writing.

I think writers have to be able to enjoy solitude rather than just endure it. I've always enjoyed being left alone with my imagination, ever since I was a kid.

I absolutely relate to being alone in squalor, trying to come up with something adequate. I relate to that, and I've been known to crawl out of bed and drink out of a 2-liter bottle of Diet Coke.

I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

When I'm all alone and I'm by myself, little Peter keeps me company.

I don't feel that I decided deliberately I'm going to write something and have it stand alone. Somewhere by the end I think it would probably revert to imagery.

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.

The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius.

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.