Quotes About Imagination

I consider painting as a means of expression, not as a goal.

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

If you can mix Hilary Duff and Gary Oldman into the same actor, that's my goal. I know it's strange to think about, but that's the goal.

Our larger goal is to tell the story

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

Any company that cannot imagine the future won't be around to enjoy it.

My goal is to create an image that would remind you of something that you haven't seen before.

My goal was just to tell the unlikely story in a way that would feel as convincing as possible.

My ultimate goal is to drive people back to the books, when I think of an adaptation.

We all get lost along the way, but hopefully we figure out some sort of path. It helps if you can imagine the process as well as the goal. Those kinds of dreams are easier to achieve.

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

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

One day soon the Gillette company will announce the development of a razor that, thanks to a computer microchip, can actually travel ahead in time and shave beard hairs that don't even exist yet

After a day spent staring at a computer monitor, think of (a) book as a kind of screen saver for your brain

A dirty mind is a terrible thing to waste.

I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

The worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore our task, as creative participants in the universe, to re dream our world. The fact of possessing imagination means that everything can be re dreamed. Each reality can have it.

Very few people do anything creative after the age of thirty-five. The reason is that very few people do anything creative before the age of thirty-five.