Quotes About Imagination

I never saw myself so much as an actor. I wanted to be a cartoonist like Charles Schulz and create my own world and be able to have a studio at home and not commute and be able to be with my family.

I wish my family had taken more pictures when I was growing up. Instead of always having to draw everything.

My twin sister, my cousin, and I used to write and perform plays for my family. We raided the closets for costumes and fought over parts. I'm sure I was the bossiest one.

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.

He was silent for a moment, staring out the window into the rain; I imagined he was contemplating the fact that his family's presence was turning the locals into giant dogs.

You learn to read in kindergarten or first grade, and suddenly there's this other world that isn't your family or your school or your friends. It's something else.

When I was four years old some friends of my family took me to see 'Fantasia' and I was totally blown away. From that minute on I wanted to be an animator.

Maybe that's all that family really is, a group of people who all miss the same imaginary place.

Growing up with three brothers and three sisters, I was the storyteller of the family... what my mother called 'The Liar.'

I come from a family of great readers and storytellers.

Half of my mum's family is Welsh. I remember when I was a kid she used to read to me, and witches and wizards in books always had a Welsh accent, so I guess I took it from that really.

Your imaginations are not beyond creation, only God's imaginations exceeds all creation.

The magic of a jewel and the mystery of a book never end!

Blessed be childhood which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.

Children are the true connoisseurs. What's precious to them has no price - only value.

The only artists for whom I would make way are - children. For me the paintings of children belong side by side with the works of the masters.

Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up - 'cause they're looking for ideas.

I consider myself very fortunate indeed to have created a character which has captured the imagination and enthusiasm of so many children worldwide. They are my family, and Spot belongs to them all.

To encourage my little kid to eat I'd sometimes say: "Just pretend it's sand."

A child prodigy is one with highly imaginative parents.

Forever encased in the amber of a writer's prose.

I do not remember how it got into my head to make the first calculations related to rocket. It seems to me the first seeds were planted by famous fantaseour, J. Verne.

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.