Quotes About Imagination

In my headphones, I led a life of romance and incident and intrigue, none of which had anything to do with the world outside my Walkman.

The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful... to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself.

If you must sleep through a third of your life, why should you sleep through your dreams, too?.

Your eyes wider than distance, this life is sweeter than fiction.

Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.

I've done a lot of geeky things in my life, but I think the geekiest of all was my first effort to build props and cosplay, when I was about twelve years-old.

Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.

In the end, this is your journey, live the life you imagined

The artist has to look at life as he did when he was a child. If he loses that faculty, he cannot express himself in an original, that is, a personal way.

Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?

I have found that-- just as in real life--imagination sometimes has to stand in for experience.

If you have used colour throughout most of your artistic life, try just black and white... it will take your painting to another dimension where tone and form in all its permutations reign supreme.

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?

..when one has no real life, one lives by mirages. It's still better than nothing.

Art can be a kind of therapeutic, or kind of a fantasy life, or wish fulfillment...o r creating this alternate universe. Art gives me the freedom to do that.

He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.

For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.

All you see in your world is the outcome of your idea about it.

There's only one thing in life, and that's the continual renewal of inspiration.

The life you want doesn't exist. You have to make it up.

For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.

My best way of making someone admit to something's wrongness is to have them imagine that thing done to them. Suddenly then it all becomes clear.

If you make believe that ten guys in pin-striped suits are back in a kindergarten class playing with building blocks, you'll get a rough picture of what life in a corporation is like.