Quotes About Imagination

Most people picture my dog with three heads, but that is wrong, wrong, wrong. He is way cooler than that. Some poets claimed he had fifty heads and some poets called him the "hundred-headed" beast. Others described him with not only multiple heads, but with a serpent's tail, a mane of snakes, and lion's paws. Whatever. I call him awesome.

The house looked like some gay architect had gotten drunk and watched Gone with the Wind.

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

You have created a new thrill.

Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the souls of men.

Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.

There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.

Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

A good story is a dream shared by the author and the reader. Anything that wakes the reader from the dream is a mortal sin.

All great discoveries in experimental physics have been due to the intuition of men who made free use of models, which were for them not products of the imagination but representatives of real things. Max Born (1953)

Books are all the dreams we would most like to have and like dreams they have the power to change consciousness.

When I was about 13 or 14, I had an English teacher who made a deal with me that I could get out of doing all of the year's regular work if I would write a short story a week and on Friday read it to the class.

The artist is only visiting pain, imagining it. We praise the artist, not the apple, not the apple's shadow, which is murdered slowly. There must be some way of drawing a picture so that it doesn't become an elegy.

There wasn't a persona or an attitude that I could reliably write good stuff from.There wasn't a persona or an attitude that I could reliably write good stuff from.

There is one habit one should not grow out of -that is Being A Child at Heart .

I figure, if the mind just 'has' to be busy, why not make up happy shit?

The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this.

Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.

Every true artist has been inspired more by the beauty of lines and color and the relationships between them than by the concrete subject of the picture.

Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.

I like creating beauty out of scary things.