Quotes About Imagination

A brain was only capable of what it could conceive, and it couldn't conceive what it had never experienced

Knowledge comes from the past, so it's safe. It is also out of date. It's the opposite of originality... Experience is the opposite of being creative.

You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

Your nervous system can't tell real failure from imagined failure.

There is no such thing as failure for an artist, unless failure is the refusal to attempt, the unwillingness to dream.

Since we took to the sky, we have wanted to fly faster and farther. And to do so, we've had to believe in impossible things and we've had to refuse to fear failure.

We cannot exercise our faith beyond what we believe to be possible.

Most processes leave out the stuff no one wants to talk about: magic, intuition and leaps of faith.

If you have faith, you can do what others can't do, because you can see what others can't see.

I paint not by sight but by faith. Faith gives you sight.

If you don't dream big, there's no use of dreaming. If you don't have faith, there's nothing worth believing.

All my own small perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded.

Faith sees the unseen things and makes them real.

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

I call myself a Possibilian: I'm open to...ideas that we don't have any way of testing right now.

Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep down and do believe.

Therefore art means: you have to believe, to have faith, that is, cultivate vision.

Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.

I heard my name associated with the Peter Pan syndrome more than once. But really, what's so wrong with Peter Pan? Peter Pan flies. He is a metaphor for dreams and faith.

Artists are visionaries. We routinely practice a form of faith, seeing clearly and moving toward a creative goal that shimmers in the distance - often visible to us, but invisible to those around us.

Maybe it's wishful thinking, this snaggly faith of mine, or maybe it's Miles Davis saying, Don't play what's there, play what's not there.