Quotes About Imagination

The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.

The story is always better than your ability to write it. My belief about this is that if you ever get to the point that you think you've done a story justice, you're in the wrong business.

Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.

Painting is a strange business.

A film director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he did not know he had inside him.

Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.

Inspiration and genius -one and the same.

The public does not know what is possible. We do.

The muse whispers to you when she chooses, and you can't tell her to come back later, because you quickly learn in this business that she might not come back at all.

What a business is this of a portrait painter! You bring him a potato and expect he will paint you a peach.

My business is making people, especially children, happy.

A vision is something you see and others don't. Some people would say that's a pocket definition of lunacy. But it also defines entrepreneurial spirit.

Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary whole and happy world.

You must have a visual sense if you want to be a photographer. It is a very subtle thing, this visual business.

In business, what distinguishes leaders from laggards and greatness from mediocrity is the ability to uniquely imagine what could be.

Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.

Fear and creativity don't mix well.

Improvisation in the jazz sense - like the business sense - is not formless. It is built on a skill set. Jazz, for example, involves selecting a tune.

Creativity comes from constraint.

Creativity is the most practical thing a businessman can employ.

A writer's business is minding other people's business ... all the vices of the village gossip are the virtues of the writer.

Things that annoy me end up fuelling my ideas.

If deceiving the eye were the only business of the art... the minute painter would be more apt to succeed. But it is not the eye, it is the mind which the painter of genius desires to address.

All humans are entrepreneurs not because they should start companies but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA.