Quotes About Imagination

Reading is dreaming. Reading is entering a world of imagination shared between reader and author. Reading is getting beyond the words to the story or meaning underneath.

speed freaks with shotguns." His imagination worked up one horrific image after another. Bobby lost or injured. Bobby sold for half-a-dozen rocks of crack. The next day, Steve flew to Tallahassee, rented a car, and drove west through the

Where are we going?" Tony said. "Somewhere wonderful," Unlikely Worlds said.

Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.

Lady Madonna lying on the bed Listen to the music playing in your head.

Animation is not just for children - it's also for adults who take drugs.

When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.

The imagination was the only country where a man could truly breathe free.

Poetry served as a sort of intellectual wallpaper to brighten up the closet.

I liked being adrift in symbols, beauty for beauty's sake.

Every time I get a script it's a matter of trying to know what I could do with it. I see colors, imagery. It has to have a smell. It's like falling in love. You can't give a reason why.

The nice thing about animation, you don't even really have to account for yourself. All of the physical stuff that you work on as an actor, you just throw away.

Art is a chimeric and permanent intervention in the mistery of permanent creation.

Ah, how hard it was, even half-delirious or asleep, to conceive of something new!

I wait for the next opportunity to have something to do with food. If I get rested, my mind just starts creating new dishes - click, click, click.

Design is everything. Everything!

The artist is a collector of things imaginary or real. He accumulates things with the same enthusiasm that a little boy stuffs his pockets. The scrap heap and the museum are embraced with equal curiosity. He takes snapshots, makes notes and records impressions on tablecloths or newspapers, on backs of envelopes or matchbooks. Why one thing and not another is part of the mystery, but he is omnivorous.

The designer does not, as a rule, begin with some preconceived idea. Rather, the idea is (or should be) the result of careful study and observation, and the design a product of that idea.

Frequently, trite ideas or unimaginative translation of those ideas is the result not of poor subject matter but of poor interpretation of a problem.

Feel the fine qualities of creativity permeating your breasts and assuming delicate configurations.

By it's mimetic intention, the world of fiction leads us to the heart of the real world of action.

Lezen is een soort handgemeen tussen lezer en boek. Het is een strijd. (...) Het is een afstandelijke houding, waarin ik leer de ruimte van mijn verbeelding te vergroten, alsof ik bepaalde rollen uitprobeer. Dat is een oefening in vrijheid en geeft aan mijn eigen levensovertuiging een zekere soepelheid en groothartigheid. Door op deze manier andere wegen uit te proberen, scheppen we opnieuw ruimte om onze houding te overwegen.

I love the way Miriam looks, because it's not based on anything human; she's going for German Expressionism or Kabuki sheet cake.

The body was an organic machine, period, and God was a figment of its fitful imagination.