Quotes About Imagination

In dream consciousness we make things happen by wishing them, because we are not only the observer of what we experience but also the creator.

The transformation of the experience: that is pure art.

Creativity is the very source and the wonder of your experience.

Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.

The high intellectual value of images, however, lies in the fact that they usually, and perhaps always, fit more than one actual experience.

We can only learn about creativity through our own experience of it.

One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one

Painting has always been a healthy and happy place for me to create. People really like that experience and so do I.

Whether a photo or music, or a drawing or anything else I might do—it's ultimately all an abstraction of my peculiar experience.

Writers . . . write to give reality to experience.

I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience

Tennyson and Browning are poets, and they think; but they do not feel their thought as immediately as the odour of a rose. A thought to Donne was an experience; it modified his sensibility.

If you have perfect virtual reality eventually, where you're be able to simulate everything that a human can experience or imagine experiencing, it's hard to imagine where you go from there.

Because it's visual art, a lot of it comes from childhood experience but then a lot comes from the visual language - in advertising and stuff like that - which is around us.

It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps mean, think of it as something outside their own experience)

Literature and film have a way of lifting you from your own existence and transporting you to some foreign place and putting you in the shoes with an experience different than your own.

The most delightful aspect about the language of cinema is that it speaks to each of us in different ways - it is a purely subjective experience.

We are most creative and sense other possibilities that transcend our ordinary experience when we leave ourselves behind.

That's the magic of moviemaking. You clearly identify one scenario with the other, and it's a completely different experience.

I don't think anything is as magical as a fairy tale experience by a child.

When I write a song, I see a tunnel, and then the chorus is an open space, or the bassline is doing this shape. I see songs as a more of a geometric, spacial experience.

All characters are based on elements of a writer's personal experience.

Knowledge, like experience, is valid in fiction only after it has dissolved and filtered down through the imagination into reality.

That's what is so precious in reading this way - you can plumb the depths of another's experience while sitting still with a book in your hands.