Quotes About Imagination

But you do not need your fear in the realm of creative expression.

While it's lovely to be childlike in your pursuit of creativity, in other words, it's dangerous to be childish.

Music is nothing more than decoration for the imagination. That

because in the end, creativity is a gift to the creator, not just a gift to the audience

There was a place within my imagination so fathomlessly deep that the light of the real world could never touch it. Nothing but sex had ever been able to reach it. This place within me was prehuman, almost. Certainly, it was precivilization. It was a place beyond language. Friendship could not reach it. My creative endeavors could not reach it. Awe and joy could not reach it. This hidden part of me could only be reached through sexual intercourse.

The essential ingredients for creativity remain exactly the same for everybody: courage, enchantment, permission, persistence, trust — and those elements are universally accessible.

Inspiration is allowed to do whatever it wants to, in fact, and it is never obliged to justify its motives to any of us.

I think a creative life is the most marvelous life there is.

I do not know of any creative soul who does not dream of calm, cool, grass-growing days in which to work without interruption

Your own reasons to create are reason enough.

Ideas of every kind are constantly galloping towards us, constantly passing through us, constantly trying to get our attention. Let them know you are available.

Nor did it occur to me that I couldn't keep a showgirl in my bedroom as a pet, just because I felt like it.

There's a hole in our world from all the art those people did not make—there is a hole in us from the loss of their work—and I cannot imagine this was ever anyone's divine plan.

it seems to me that my fear and my creativity are basically conjoined twins—as evidenced by the fact that creativity cannot take a single step forward without fear marching right alongside it.

But why must everything always have a practical application?

Moreover, I can't say I ever fantasized about marrying him. In general, of course, the thought of marriage gave me a hemmed-in feeling, and I didn't long for it with anyone. But certainly not with Frank. I couldn't imagine us sitting at a breakfast table, talking over a newspaper. Planning vacations. That picture didn't look like either of us.

Let inspiration lead you wherever it wants to lead you. Keep in mind that for most of history people just made things, and they didn't make such a big freaking deal out of it.

The hunt to uncover those jewels—that's creative living.

inspiration comes from another world, you see, and it speaks a language entirely unlike my own, so sometimes we have trouble understanding each other. But inspiration is still sitting there right beside me, and it is trying.

The often surprising results of that hunt—that's what I call Big Magic.

It was like one of those dreams where you discover a previously unknown room in your house and you have that expansive feeling that your life has more possibility to it than you thought it did.

I realized that, as a songwriter, the only thing I really do is make jewelry for the inside of other people's minds.

when courage dies, creativity dies with it.

your fear will always show up—especially when you're trying to be inventive or innovative. Your fear will always be triggered by your creativity, because creativity asks you to enter into realms of uncertain outcome, and fear hates uncertain outcome.