Quotes About Imagination

You imagination is more important than your knowledge.

God will give you new pictures. Instead of going back into your memory, let God move you into your future through your imagination. Your Memory Replays Your Past; Your Imagination Preplays Your Future

How beautiful black-and-white is. It's not literal. It's a metaphor automatically, already saying, this is not life, it's ABOUT life.

All the theories that acting is reacting to imaginary circumstances as though they are real, and directing is turning psychology into behavior, those are all stabs at something that can't be taught. All the great actors can't talk about what they do, and they don't want to begin to talk about it. They just do it.

Every book is a time machine, a flying carpet, a passport to the most powerful nation in the world....... your imagi-nation!

You remember that friend of mine, the Doctor?" Ali nodded. "Well, he's an expert on monsters. Sorts 'em out all the time." "Really?" "Really. He gives THEM nightmares.

I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.

surfing, writing, composing, and programming deep into the night, like it's the early 1980s with the hue of poison-green CRT illuminating the room, Nike running shoes on the floor, hair metal poster on the door, and everything is infinite, made of fibre optics and floppy disks . . .

If I couldn't be a fiction writer, I would be a roller coaster designer for theme parks

The artist inhabits a strange world, an insubstantial world of shadows and essences, one whose boundaries are perhaps more permeable than normal

Writers don't live their lives. They are simply making a report on it.

for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.

The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything. When Don Quixote went out into the world, that world turned into a mystery before his eyes. That is the legacy of the first European novel.

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.

The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes our lives beautiful ... Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

A single metaphor can give birth to love.

I shall not be lonely. No one who reads is ever that.

So many things are possible as long as you don't know they are impossible.

I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

Don t play what's there, play what's not there.

Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.

Don't play what s there play what's not there.

All art is abstract, because art is an abstraction of the truth.