Quotes About Imagination

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

The fear is not real, Dil Bahadur; it is only in your mind, like all other things. Our thoughts form what we believe to be reality.

It's not the darkness that people fear; it's what they imagine into the darkness.

I had an old typewriter and a big idea.

Imagination is the hotbed where this sin is too often hatched. Guard your thoughts, and there will be little fear about your actions.

I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.

Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.

It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.

I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.

I said, "I do not fear those pants with nobody inside them." I said, and said, and said those words. I said them but I lied them.

It seems strange that some artists fear a blank canvas, when it has been a major contributory factor to great paintings.

Coraline shivered. She preferred her other mother to have a location: if she were nowhere, then she could be anywhere. And, after all, it is always easier to be afraid of something you cannot see.

I think everyone is born creative but it can be suppressed by fear.

One can thus state, without fear of being wrong, that every truly artistic production has been conceived and executed according to the principle of irregularity.

While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Mr. Ashcroft is delighted to play the part of Fear Itself, an assignment in which he lets his imagination run riot.

I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.

... we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.

It is significant that people who refuse to tell their children fairytales do not fear that the children will believe in princes and princesses, but that they will believe in witches and bogeys.

Most fears are not even based on our current reality. They are the product of imagined fears conjured up in our minds - the product of our own fantasies.

The artist should fear to become the slave of detail.

In the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear!

Emptiness is the pregnant void out of which all creation springs. But many of us fear emptiness. We prefer to remain...surrounded by things...we imagine are subject to our control.

My greatest fear is being somewhere without a book.

I tend to scare myself.