Quotes About Imagination

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.

Rational thoughts never drive people's creativity the way emotions do.

What is art but a way of seeing?

Dream in a pragmatic way.

Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.

At primary school, we would pick up plastic petals on the way home to make flowers. Now you might call it child labour, but we did it for pocket money.

When I was younger, I'd be walking down the street and suddenly panic because I had a cool idea and no way of getting it down - I'd have to sing it all the way home. Now I can hum it into my phone.

David Geffen was a Bruce Wayne to me. He was extraordinary, but at the same time, his talents were something that I could dream of and could fathom.

There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

Procrastination gives you time to consider divergent ideas, to think in nonlinear ways, to make unexpected leaps.

I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.

I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don't understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives, in allowing us to escape our lives, in giving us empathy and in creating the world that we live in.

I enjoy thinking about ways to create something that other people have not even thought about, something no one has managed to achieve.

I think in many ways, I'm sort of a blank canvas, because in many ways, I'm just observing the world and the people around me and their characters and letting them kind of explode off me and to find out why they're doing what they're doing. But then every once in awhile, I get to take on a whole new character.

I try to find different ways of expressing myself. Without that I will die.

I would say that kids are great in many ways, because I think that we are less hampered when it comes to 'this costs too much' or 'that's impossible'.

I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One of the most impressive ways to tell your war story is to refuse to tell it, you know. Civilians would then have to imagine all kinds of deeds of derring-do.

Creativity is bound up in our ability to find new ways around old problems.

We're always looking for ways to use technologies to open up new creative expressions for us artistically. So we're constantly thinking about where something like VR may lead us in storytelling or what kind of tool that gives us as storytellers.

That's the incredible thing about 'Matilda': it keeps manifesting itself in different ways.

I thought of myself as an outsider in a lot of ways as I was growing up. Not in a bad way; more as an observer. I often find myself thinking as an observer of science fiction rather than as a participant.