Quotes About Imagination

We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience, or we shall learn nothing rightly.

Rather than seeing dreams as containing hidden messages, see dreams as experiences of empathy. Then use empathy with the dream to reconnect with the experience of dreaming itself.

Experiment is actually doing the art. That's the experiment and then you get to experience the experiment.

For me, creativity is essentially a spiritual experience, a conversation between my soul and me.

You could be anybody when you're writing. That's the reason that I'm writing: to be anybody. You can put your feet in various shoes and experience anything.

Working with CGI is more like doing theater where your sort of imagining things. I didn't experience it as restrictive.

As an actress, it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within your personal experience.

When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.

Usually my starting point is something that I've seen. It might be a painting, it might be an object. But they always start from a definite sensory experience.

I feel that all a writer has is his own experience.

Through the experience of art, the powers of perception and transformation can be awakened, in both those who create it and those who re-perceive it.

No matter how enormous a novel may become, the physical act of reading determines that there's no way it can become a communal experience. To read is intimate. It's almost masturbatory.

But because we've all been readers, we know what the experience is like, and we hope that what certain writers have given to us, we will give to someone.

In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express.

I always want readers to lose themselves completely in a story and feel something, whatever the book invites them to feel. That experience is the best takeaway any book can offer.

I've had a little Hollywood experience, and there's nothing like the Disney story experience.

Story is a sacred visualization, a way of echoing experience.

my experience as a fiction writer tells me that the deeper I look into myself, the more universal is the experience I find there.

Stop being so fruitlessly busy and dream. Use your imagination. Reach out into the unknown and dream of how you can enlarge your experience and improve your mind and your soul and your world.

You can turn off the song the way you cannot the actual experience.

I'm always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps.

People don't go to the movies to get the news, people don't go to the movies to learn a lesson. People go to the movie to get an emotional experience.

Every book is a unique experience.

Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.