Quotes About Imagination

A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.

Dirt rolls from his palm, Blades of grass Tumble from his hair.

Art speaks only to the mind, whereas nature speaks to all the faculties.

Go to the source for ideas, go to the Metropolitan Museum, find your inspiration in nature, go to the Museum of Natural History, but never rely on something that someone else has done.

Speaking of August Rodin: He raised his world above us in an immense arc, and made it a part of nature.

Nature, or the world, or reality, is what mythology is all about.

I always think I don't have any songs, I don't have anything I'm working on, and I get in the studio and realize there are 20 things I'm thinking about. It's just kind of second nature.

It is the nature of the writer to question the validity of his world and yet rely on his senses to describe it. From what other tension can great literature be born?

Being out in nature inspires me as a writer.

At this moment, the story in his head was perfect. He also knew from experience that it would degenerate the second he started typing, because such was the nature of writing.

The artist Nature often achieves greatest effect when not working with a full palette.

Love is ...not a fact in nature of which we become aware, but rather a creation of the human imagination.

Myth continues to be a valuable way to understand parts of our nature that we can't quantify.

Games are nature's most beautiful creation

Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a poor master who makes only a single figure well.

The wilderness provides an environment for a child's inner life to develop because it requires him to be constantly aware of his surroundings.

I'm a big fan of science fiction, animation, and things of that nature. Other worlds and that type of stuff.

New arts are long in the world before poets describe them; for they borrow everything from their predecessors, and commonly derive very little from nature or from life.

Art must be in touch with nature - and wherever that touch is gone, Art degenerates - yet it must be above nature.

Nature and the imagination seem to be the precursors to involvement in the psychedelic experience.

Nature, after all, is still the grand agent in making poets.

The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago, and they're all driven by the possibilities of CGI, which means you can make anything happen on screen that you can possibly desire.

Fishing, by its very nature, nourishes the imagination, feeding it with a potent fuel of hope and desire.

The beauty and wonders of nature are as alluring as the pursuit of Art, and made of me a landscape painter.