Quotes About Imagination

Avoid preaching. Children's stories should be explorations of life

We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs. ...if you look very intensely and slowly, things will happen that you never dreamed of before.

Music is what mathematics does on a Saturday night.

And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.

If you were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook.

Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, such shaping fantasies, that apprehend more than cool reason ever comprehends.

I suppose everyone is a daydreamer, but I was better at it than most.

My muse, whatever it is, is leading me to write stories.

I'm a storyteller, and it's a storyteller's job to take on other people's voices. To present as real a picture of things as possible. Every storyteller will write a different story.

This is where the inspiration for books comes from. Images and ideas and sounds from these worlds seep through the water and into our dimension. And those things inspire people like you. Storytellers.

In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.

Some movies bring out the creativity in you. Every single audience member can become creative in the face of a particular movie. If you happen to like my films, it's because my films provide a bed for you on which you can find your creativity. The Hollywood movies do not provide that for you.

I've got heaps of dreams.

j'ai rêvé , l'autre nuit, que mon corps était des mots.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

Before maps the world was limitless. It was maps that gave it shape and made it seem like territory, like something that could be possessed, not just laid waste and plundered. Maps made places on the edges of the imagination seem graspable and placable. And later when it became necessary, geography became biology in order to construct a hierarchy in which to place the people who lived in their inaccessibility and

That is what stories can do, they can push the feeble disorders we live with out of sight.

I speak to maps. And sometimes they something back to me. This is not as strange as it sounds, nor is it an unheard of thing. Before maps, the world was limitless. It was maps that gave it shape and made it seem like territory, like something that could be possessed, not just laid waste and plundered. Maps made places on the edges of the imagination seem graspable and placable.

But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.

Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.

Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.

A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.