Quotes About Imagination

Look at the blank pages before you with courage. Now fill them with beauty.

The future awaits those with the courage to create it.

I think what we (as a society) need from artists of all kinds is courage, a willingness to explore, and a really big sense of possibility.

To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.

No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.

The incurable ills are the imaginary ills

I definitely want to go and do some more research. My dad used to make me sit outside on the steps all night long, looking for a UFO flying by and I had to do that for years.

Before there is a business, a successful entrepreneur is designing this type of business in his or her mind's eye. According to my rich dad, this is the job of a true entrepreneur.

My dad would often take me to the cinema and I found myself really seduced by the imagery, I think this had a massive impact on how I viewed the world.

When we started making electronic music I imagined that the reaction we got from the rock musicians must have been similar to the one the beat groups got from people like my dad.

When you say you're doing an opera, it's like when you're a seven-year-old and say, 'I'm off to Washington, Dad.' You kind of go, 'Sure. Sure you are, son.'

Hey Dad, will you buy me a flame thrower? Of course not. Don't be silly. Even if I didn't use it in the house?

Teddy said it was a hat, So I put it on. Now dad is saying, "where the heck's the toilet plunger gone?

One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.

I'll try to be around and about. But if I'm not, then you know that I'm behind your eyelids, and I'll meet you there

I think beating someone to death with a ukulele would just sound funny.

Didacticism is the death of art.

My capacity for invention is flash hot stark, I thought. Sucker sunshade. Disembodied radar-reconnaissance. Not to mention Bitter Chocolate Death and Killer Zebras. Pity about the rest of me.

When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction.

I was born to find goblins in their caves / And chase moonlight / To see shadows and seek hidden rivers / To hear the rain fall on dry leaves / And chat a bit with death across foggy nights.

...we shall board our imagined ship and wildly sail among sacred islands of the mad till death shatters the fabulous stars and makes us real.

When I can't sleep, I always wrap something around my neck and close my eyes and imagine myself being strangled to death. Then I can fall asleep--it feels like sinking deep underwater

By the creative act, we are able to reach beyond our own death.

We all think we know what happens after death. But maybe it's going to be not only weird but also dorky and comic and inconsistent.