Quotes About Imagination

This is all a dream and we're both asleep right now.

Chris Grabenstein

Chris Grabenstein

It's your story," Kyle whispered back. "Take it where you want to go.

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Because," said Mr. Lemoncello, "it's a trampoline.

You'll Never Feel as Tall as When You're Ten

I enjoy working on a movie that lets your imagination run wild, it's great to be a part of and watch.

I'm into designing houses and interior design. I like change. I like creating things out of nothing.

When you're living so intensely in your head there isn't any different between what you imagine and what actually takes place. Therefore, you're both omnipotent and powerless.

Even if everything between us was 80 percent in my own mind, I said, 20 percent had to come from you. You disagreed; insisted everything that passed between us was my own fabrication.

Cuando vives con tanta intensidad en la cabeza, al final no hay diferencia entre lo que imaginas y lo que ocurre de veras.

Art supercedes what's personal.

There is nothing quite like opening an unfamiliar book that smells like a new memory about to happen.

The measure of their personal greatness is less what they found at journey's end and more the depth of human character that carried them along the way: their imagination, will, perseverance, courage, resourcefulness, and willingness to bear the risk of failure.

Los líderes imaginan un futuro inspirador y se esfuerzan por darle forma, en vez de permanecer pasivos a la espera de lo que traiga el futuro. Los héroes sacan oro de lo que tienen a mano en lugar de esperar a tener en la mano oportunidades de oro.

That's the beauty of the text, I find. You can key in things you would never say, and it hardly hurts a bit.

The first image he told me about was of three children on a road in Iceland, in 1965. He said that for him it was the image of happiness and also that he had tried several times to link it to other images, but it never worked. He wrote me: one day I'll have to put it all alone at the beginning of a film with a long piece of black leader; if they don't see happiness in the picture, at least they'll see the black.

Talents are like the fairies. If no-one believes in them, they die.

When I was a child, my artist mom told me that there was no such thing as bad art. I know now that this was a complete lie. Yet it was a lie I needed to hear. It informed me that the goal of art was the creative process of discovery, experimentation, and fun. To this day, I cling to this lie as truth—especially when my pictures don't turn out right.

THE POWER OF IMAGINATION MAKES US INFINITE. — JOHN MUIR

You don't need to be a scientist to know how powerful your imagination is.

I always try to treat the book itself as the artwork. I don't want you to stop while you're reading one of my books and say, 'Oh! What a gorgeous illustration!' I want you to stop at the end of the book and say, 'This is a good book.