Quotes About Imagination

Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is confined to the present

Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.

If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society.

The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done - men who are creative, inventive and discoverers.

Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.

Play is the work of childhood.

Nel, after throwing a stone onto a sloping bank watching the stone rolling said, 'Look at the stone. It's afraid of the grass

All great art is abstract.

Only the magic and the dream are true — all the rest's a lie.

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Art's only concern with the real is to abolish it, and to substitute for it a new reality

I had woven a tapestry of obscenity that as far as I know is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan.

Kissel worked in Idleness the way other artists worked in clay or marble.

The show was over and you had a sinister feeling that out there in the darkness all over the country there were millions of kids—decoding.

You may find a myth that will evoke the reality in you

I have always thought of a myth as something that never was, but is always happening

After all, your head only had so much room in it. No surprise if it overflowed once in a while with little bits of sparkle and electrical fizz.

The artist on art. How do you get your ideas for stories Mr. Valentine? Well, I simply exploit everything I come into contact with. One ended, of course, by losing all spontaneity. You saw people as characters, sunsets as an excuse for similes -.

You know, your family's exactly like I imagined them. Exactly like you." "What's that supposed to mean?" "You're like the blackbirds. The blondbirds." "Very funny." "They're very nice. You always talk like they're Norwegian hillbillies or something.

I am a tourist of the emotions, visiting only the most well-worn spots. It is romantic, that is, a distortion, to imagine whole lives from the barest observation.

original topics of research that those who stay cloistered in their ivory towers could never imagine.

O can't you see it, O can't you see it,Her skin is like dusk on the eastern horizon… When the sun goes down.

We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.