Quotes About Imagination

These are the dreams we should be having. I shouldn't have to clean them up like this.

I make up things that I would never say. I say them very quietly.

The hunter sinks his arrows into the trees and then paints the targets around them. The trees imagine they are deer. The deer imagine they are safe. The arrows: they have no imagination.

You want a better story. Who wouldn't?

Numbers larger than ten are no longer human: they fly from the hand into the imaginary sky we call hypothesis.

When he throws the wrench into the air it will catch the light as it spins toward you. Look—it looks like a star.

A man found a door and hung it on the wall.

It could have been so beautiful . . . how it was and how it will be, memory and fantasy

Something has happened in the paint tonight and it is worth keeping.

Who am I? I'm just a writer. I write things down. I walk through your dreams and invent the future.

I talk to you as if you're really there.

These are the dreams we should be having.

We used to dream about them. We used to do a lot of things.

Forget about his insides, his plumbing and his furnaces, put a thing in his hand and be done with it. No one wants to know what's in his head. It should be enough. To make something beautiful should be enough. It isn't. It should be.

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

You have to be able to roll your eyes up into your skull, down the inside of the back of your head, up your jawbone, and into the sockets again. That's how the writers wrote the character, and the producers have too much integrity to alter the conception.

you would be surprised how many people seriously limit their dreams. They're your dreams for heaven's sake. There should be no limit to them. Plans have to be realistic; dreams don't.

PLANS HAVE TO BE REALISTIC; DREAMS DON'T

It's amazing what some people read into songs.

People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences.

is writing that does what only literature can do: transport you to another time and place and acquaint you with emotions and sensations that you otherwise would never feel.

It is writing that does what only literature can do: transport you to another time and place and acquaint you with emotions and sensations that you otherwise would never feel.

theological aesthetics will consider God, religion, and theology in relation to sensible knowledge (sensation, imagination, and feeling), the beautiful, and the arts.

I am not here in this life to be well balanced or admired. I'm here to be an oddball, eccentric, different, wildly imaginative, creative, daring, curious, inventive and even a tad strange at times.