Quotes About Imagination

I can say that paintings are prayers, they have to do with anything that makes you wish for more that what everyday life provides.

Unless a man learns how to create, he never becomes a part of existence, which is constantly creative. By being creative one becomes divine; creativity is the only prayer.

For you to make your creative work creative, you must seek creativity from the creator.

A fly rod extends a fly fisher's being as surely as do imagination, empathy or prayer.

Purpose is when you know and understand what you were born to accomplish. Vision is when you see it in your mind and begin to imagine it

I've been fascinated by dreams my whole life, since I was a kid, and I think the relationship between movies and dreams is something that's always interested me.

A story is the relationship that you develop between who you are, or who you potentially are, and the infinite world.

It feels good to think about you when I'm warm in bed. I feel as if you're curled up there beside me, fast asleep. And I think how great it would be if it were true.

When we visualize something, we establish a relationship to the thing itself, not to some mere subjective representation of it inside us.

I have a good imagination. Look, I know what it feels like to have a broken heart. I know what it feels like to feel something for somebody. I'm just too weird to be in a relationship.

When I was a child of four I wasn't really drawing like a child, I wasn't sketching as a child. I would sketch and I was using perspective, the good relationship of the subject.

The secret to a long-lasting relationship is perpetually imagining the worst. It's a world view tracing back to my Eastern European ancestry and one I draw upon regularly.

I write to escape. I haven't managed it yet, but I'm working on it

If you can't see the joy and wonder to be found in genre fiction, that's your problem, not mine.

Some folks swear, though not at all, that, using chains, he sliced his head off--derby and all--and that the head sailed like a cannon ball through the air a quarter mile, bounced another quarter mile, and still had enough steam to cripple a horse some fellow was riding into New Marsails.

As I remember them, late summer Saturdays were always hot, dry, and colored a deep green. I know now some Saturdays must have been gray; rain must have made water princesses dance in gutter puddles, as my grandmother assured me they did, each time a drop plunked down. But I will never really believe it rained on Saturdays, for I can remember only the sun playing with bits of broken glass in the vacant lot next to my house and myself running all day up and down the block like a heathen.

Dreamer of dreams, born out of my due time,Why should I strive to set the crooked straight?

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.

It is the childlike part of us that produces works of the imagination. When we were children time passed so slow with us that we seemed to have time for everything.

If others can see it as I have seen it, then it may be called a vision rather than a dream.

If you can't find the book you want to read, write it.

Gazing at the faintest and remotest of all the swarm of universes, I seemed, by hypertelescopic imagination, to see it as a population of suns; and near one of those suns was a planet, and on that planet's dark side a hill, and on that hill myself.

if oxen and lions and horses had hands and could draw, they would represent their gods as oxen and lions and horses.

You can't lead bunny lives and write tiger poetry.