Quotes About Imagination

In reality, if he had lived, I would have had a dad. And that would have been an incredible experience.

I should say that I am a visual person. I experience with my eyes and never, or rarely, with my ears... to my constant regret.

The ideal artist is he who knows everything, feels everything, experiences everything, and retains his experience in a spirit of wonder and feeds upon it with creative lust.

The hard part is how to plan a picture so as to give to others what has happened to you. To render in paint an experience, to suggest the sense of light and color, of air and space.

I think it's important to leave spaces in a story for readers to fill in from their own experience.

I'm always hoping for the nights that are inspired where you almost have an out of body experience

The artist has to make the viewer understand that his world is too narrow, he has to open up to new perspectives.

Reality lies in the greatest enchantment you have ever experienced.

One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.

The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.

Half the charm of climbing mountains is born in visions preceding this experience - visions of what is mysterious, remote, inaccessible.

It was a great experience for a kid, because it was a bunch of kids playing on pirate ships and water slides, so looking back on it, it was the fondest experience of my childhood.

I never demonstrate how art should be made or what the outcome should look like. Instead, give kids the tools and the materials to make their own art. Have them experience the process.

An artist must find his expression closely linked to his individual experience or else follow in the old grooves resulting in lifeless forms.

There's no better reading experience than going to the place where a text was written.

People prone to joyful anticipation, skilled at obtaining pleasure from looking forward and imagining future happy events, are especially likely to be optimistic and to experience intense emotions.

There's the concept that dreams are as important - if not more important - than reality. The attention that one pays to those things in the shadows is very much a part of the Indian experience.

Reading a novel is just a much more involving and intimate experience than the act of watching a film. I mean, you literally get inside of a novelist's head, and you invest many hours to do so.

Even for the people who are color-blind to any degree, I believe their experience would also be affected [ in Lords of Rainbow ] if everyone else too only perceived the world in colorless monochrome.

Art, for me, has always been a ticket for experience.

The worst advice a young writer can get is "Write what you know." Imagination is more important than experience.

Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.

The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world.

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.