Quotes About Imagination

I give people the latitude to express their imagination.

So far as his beliefs about the primary world were concerned, Tolkien was a traditional, orthodox Catholic. So far as his subcreated world was concerned, he claimed the right to say, not how things are, but how, within the limits set by his fundamental beliefs, they could be.

We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.

A semicomma, we should note, doesn't exist; we just made the word up. But it sounds like a punctuation mark that should exist, doesn't it?

During sex I fantasize that I'm someone else.

I think I'm always so much more happy with books and movies and stuff. I think I get more excited about well-done representations of life than life itself. - Celine

I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists.

Dream is destiny.

The big nut to crack is to how to tell a story, what's the right way to tell a particular story.

O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and you are hot inside to think of good hours to come.

In an effort to value and structure time, some of us unintentionally may be killing dreamtime.

I have a soft spot in my heart for tree houses, which have always imparted certain magic and practical knowledge.

I played around our yard some and talked to the fence posts, sung songs and made the weeds sing . . . —WOODY GUTHRIE

Nature inspires creativity in a child by demanding visualization and the full use of the senses.

Nature inspires creativity in a child by demanding visualization and the full use of the senses. Given a chance, a child will bring the confusion of the world to the woods, wash it in the creek, turn it over to see what lives on the unseen side of that confusion. Nature can frighten a child, too, and this fright serves a purpose. In nature, a child finds freedom, fantasy, and privacy: a place distant from the adult world, a separate peace.

Nature inspires creativity in a child by demanding visualization and the full use of the senses. Given a chance, a child will bring the confusion of the world to the woods, wash it in the creek, turn it over to see what lives on the unseen side of that confusion.

Nature offers a well from which many, famous or not, draw a creative sense of pattern and connection.

Grandchildren have taught me how important the future is. I try to look through their eyes and envision what's in their imagination. What's the world going to look like when they're my age? That really does take a huge imagination.

Weather is a kind of Rorschach test. We see in it what we need to see, or what we feel is missing from our lives.

We bring to everything we read the expectations we have built up by a lifetime of reading.

That which you believe becomes your world.

In a world of monotonous horror there could be no salvation in wild dreaming.

When you sleep, your dream world is as real to you as life, isn't it?

desk into a small and lonely light and floated in dreams on a skiff of words. He blinked away the shadows of an ominous image, something tremendous, dark, winged, blotting over the sparkle of the rising sun. Kipling stood up, one hand pressing the cloth, the other still shielding his eyes. "An airplane," he said. The double wings dipped and a trail of black smoke stained the perfect blue sky and then the craft lurched and dropped below the level of the trees.