Quotes About Imagination

I don't know enough about the lower classes to write about them. I don't feel with them, and that could be regarded as a defect, a limitation of my imagination. I could put myself in their position, but not politically. The idea of writing a story or a book about somebody completely devoid of appreciation of anything I care about is completely foreign to me.

A lot of writers ... sit in a log cabin by the lake and put their feet up by the fire in the silence and write. If you can have that that's all very well, but the true writer will learn to write anywhere -- even in prison.

Communication is everything to you artists. You can't look at a landscape or a bowl of fruit without thinking how you will put it on a canvas so that somebody else will see it as your landscape or your bowl of fruit. That is the inescapable vulgarity of art.

To me, art supplies are always okay to buy.

Je?eli rzeczywi?cie nie ma ?adnej materii na tym ?wiecie, je?li ziemia, po której chodzimy, jest u?ud?, je?eli tak naprawd? nie ma tego, co widzimy, to có? nam pozostaje? Na czym mo?emy zawiesi? kapelusz? Magia to jedyna rzecz, która nie rz?dzi si? "racjonalnymi" prawami.

W rzeczy samej, na obecnym etapie naszej wiedzy na ten temat, sny mog? by? jedynie oparami naszej wyobra?ni. Jak powiedzia? Bertrand Russell: "nie wierz?, ?e teraz ?ni?, ale nie mog? dowie??, ?e tak nie jest". Mora? z tego taki, ?e w naszych nocnych podró?ach jest wi?cej sensu, ni?by si? nam mog?o wydawa?.

Het mooie van onze verbeelding is voor ons, die geen menschen van doen zijn, de troost van ons leven.

Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?

It seems that everyone has their own inexplicable fear to have nightmares about. We need nightmares to keep ourselves entertained, and fend off the contentment that we all fear and abhor so much.

Art is a product of the intuitive—the most powerful instrument within us. The intuitive is the most accurate sense we have.

Isn't it too bad Walt Disney didn't live to see this?" "He did see it," Vance replied simply. "That's why it's here.

Creativity is merely the arrangement of existing forms into new relationships.

Why settle for the ordinary when the extraordinary is only a little dreaming and doing away?

believe one of the best models for creativity is found in the design and development of Disney theme parks, a practice better known as Imagineering.

Blue Sky is the stage where you develop a vision to address that Need and identify what you're going to create. Put another way, the objective of the Blue Sky stage is to create a vision with enough detail to be able to explain, present, and sell it to others.

There's really no secret about our approach. We keep moving forward–opening new doors and doing new things—because we're curious. And curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. We're always exploring and experimenting…we call it "Imagineering"—the blending of creative imagination and technical know-how.

Walt Disney defined Imagineering as the blending of creative imagination and technical know-how. I like

The artist is only a vehicle for already has been. Nothing can really be given a presence unless it already exists potentially.

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.

A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.

One day I was speeding along at the typewriter, and my daughter - who was a child at the time - asked me, "Daddy, why are you writing so fast?" And I replied, "Because I want to see how the story turns out!

The poet is a maker, not a retail trader.

Let the old Muse loosen her stays Or give me a new Muse with stockings and suspenders And a smile like a cat, With false eyelashes and finger-nails of carmine And dressed by Schiaparelli, with a pill-box hat. ... Give me a houri but houris are too easy, Give me a nun; We'll rape the angels off the golden reredos Before we're done.

It is only when memory is filtered through imagination that the films we make will have real depth.