Quotes About Imagination

Big ideas come from the unconscious. This is true in art, in science and in advertising. But your unconscious has to be well informed, or your idea will be irrelevant. Stuff your conscious mind with information, then unhook your rational thought process.

In my experience, committees can criticize, but they cannot create. 'Search the parks in all your cities You'll find no statues of committees.

Consider the future, Moldenke. Do you imagine we'll ever get there?

And I have come to understand the truth of what Ansel Adams said that you don't make a photograph just with a camera but that you bring to the act all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard and the people you have loved.

A boy with a ball. A boy with a dream.

Okay, Eliza. Now–you know–rise up! Think about those buffalos," Abby said. "Walking backward," added Ben. "Wearing diapers!" Ricky reminded her, giggling with glee. "I know how to do it!" Eliza snapped.

Greg Bear, Alan Dean Foster, Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle.

Perhaps all play is metaphor, perhaps all metaphor is play.

Certainly metaphor is in some sense the opposite of concrete thing.

Thus, one might say, the dream can never be read literally, because its very substance is metaphor...

Northrop Frye said that a poet is a myth's way of making another myth.

wildly speculative.

The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money.

Even today, LEGO continues to embrace one of founder Ole Kirk Christiansen's core values: to never let war seem like child's play.

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions. ANTHONY JAY

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.

Les hommes normaux ne savent pas que tout est possible.

Whitman wrote articles on almost every topic, storing up images and impressions that would later be useful to him as a poet.

good art illustrates anything at all, it's likely to be a story you didn't even know needed telling.

One way to look at a painting—and I use that word as shorthand for visual art in general—is to notice as you take its measure what it is you actually find yourself thinking about, which may differ from what you imagine you're supposed to be thinking about.

Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action.

As a child I assumed that when I reached adulthood, I would have grown-up thoughts.

Fairy dust is very useful. I use it to turn oatmeal into cake.

Esta noche quiero escapar y meterme en la historia de alguien más.