Quotes About Imagination

I think about freedom and the urgency around our imagination. If you can't imagine it, you can't fight for it.

I don't want to write a novel per year. I know that I need a break of one or two years. So maybe I invent some new, urgent activity so I don't fall into the trap of starting a new novel.

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

It's lack that gives us inspiration. It's not fullness.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

I build an entire fort out of pillows. I need at least four pillows. I need on each side, I need one normal usage pillow for the back of my head, and I need another pillow just in case.

I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

The truly unique trait of 'Sapiens' is our ability to create and believe fiction. All other animals use their communication system to describe reality. We use our communication system to create new realities. Of course, not all fictions are shared by all humans, but at least one has become universal in our world, and this is money.

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

If I could find anything blacker than black, I'd use it.

When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.

Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.

Even though I know who I am, musically I'm a blank canvas. I know what colors I want to use, but I don't know what picture I want to paint yet.

I love old books. They tell you stories about their use. You can see where the fingerprints touched the pages as they held the book open. You can see how long they lingered on each page by the finger stains.

'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'

To create characters, one must build background. And one of the tools we use is improvisation.

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

For a sculptor, a painter, a weaver, a potter, the dialogue between one's materials and what one makes from them is easy to see: discover a new material or a new way to use a familiar one, and new things can be made, sometimes leading to the discovery of more new material, leading to more creation.

A good use for me is to let me go away with my sewing machine and come back with some really new stuff.

When I was a kid, I used to pretend to be Bond; I used to make up scenarios and irritate my sister and annoy my mother and father pretending to be someone else, so I kind of was already acting when I was a child. I just didn't really know it.

When I was a child, Lego came in brick form, you'd buy boxes of random bricks. You used your imagination and your mind in your build.

When I was a kid, I used to think pork chops and karate chops were the same thing.