Quotes About Imagination

And the wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws.

And [he] sailed back over a year and in and out of weeks and through a day and into the night of his very own room where he found his supper waiting for him and it was still hot

But the wild things cried, "Oh please don't go - we'll eat you up - we love you so!" And Max said, "No!" The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved goodbye.

there is no such thing as fantasy unrelated to reality

Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.

Then from far away across the world he smelled good things to eat, so he gave up being king of the wild things.

And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming wild things.

Kids don't know about best sellers. They go for what they enjoy. They aren't star chasers and they don't suck up. It's why I like them.

Ultimately you will discover that he is, quite simply and without pose, a compound of gentleman and tramp, hermit and wanderer, scholar and ignoramus, realist and idealist, and of many other things as well—in short, a seeker of beauty and a believer in the dominion of reason over imagination.

la fantasía, ¿sabes?, es la única cualidad humana que no está sujeta a las miserias de la realidad.

Breakthroughs occur not when someone works within the established paradigm but when assumptions are abandoned, rules are ignored, and creativity runs amok

She had the loaded handbag of someone who camps out and seldom goes home, or who imagines life must be full of emergencies.

Fiction is largely the process of writers solving problems of their own creation.

And, hey. You. Thanks for being the kind of person who likes to pick up a book. That's a genuinely great thing. I met a librarian recently who said she doesn't read because books are her job and when she goes home, she just wants to switch off. I think we can agree that that's as creepy as hell. Thank you for seeking out stories, the kind that take place in your brain.

She didn't really enjoy reading but she liked how the books were clues. Each one a piece in a puzzle. Even when they didn't fit together, they revealed a little more about what kind of picture she was making.

All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.

I believe that ideas such as absolute certitude, absolute exactness, final truth, etc. are figments of the imagination which should not be admissible in any field of science... This loosening of thinking seems to me to be the greatest blessing which modern science has given to us. For the belief in a single truth and in being the possessor thereof is the root cause of all evil in the world.

I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears.

We can teach ourselves to see things the way they ARE. Only with vision can we begin to see things the way they CAN BE.

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

A discovery is like falling in love and reaching the top of a mountain after a hard climb all in one, an ecstasy not induced by drugs but by the revelation of a face of nature that no one has seen before and that often turns out to be more subtle and wonderful than anyone had imagined.

I mean, it's fine when you're a kid and someone runs into the playground and goes, 'I've got this great game of pretend ' and you play... As an actor, getting to play, getting to use your imagination and be childish - it is weird but it's wonderful.

What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.

When you get to the point where you cheat for the sake of beauty, you're an artist.