Quotes About Imagination

To kill our dream life would be to kill ourselves, to mutilate our soul. Dreaming is the one thing we have that's really ours, invulnerably and inalterably ours.

Lyrically I like to use themes that make the listener use his or her imagination, and to give a little of the lessons I've learned in my own life.

How beautiful can life be? We hardly dare imagine it.

The desire to be part of something greater and to occupy life more fully, is also a desire to touch and be touched by the living imagination that sustains each soul and all of life.

Life is not what we live; it is what we imagine we are living.

Cinema has become my life. I dont mean a parallel world, I mean my life itself. I sometimes have the impression that the daily reality is simply there to provide material for my next film.

Art is life's dream interpretation.

If I had influence with the good fairy... I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.

Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.

[My works are] an imitation of my own past and present and of my own creative vitality as I experience them in one particular instant of my emotional and imaginative life. . .

What do little kids do? They crawl on the floor and they build with blocks. I just continued to do that for the rest of my life.

Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.

Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab.

I've only been interested in the artistic side of life.

Is the cinema more important than life?

Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.

Throughout my life, I've been gratified that I've been able to keep the child in me alive and inspire others.

One's capacity for metaphor is one's capacity for a full life.

Wherever I wander off to, when I draw, when I paint, I get my life back. I am lucky that I am an Artist.

I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.

Learning to create is essential, necessary, vital & fundamental. It is the centrepiece in which you create the life that you really want

We live as we dream - alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.

We have art in order not to die of life.

I feel that the only thing that really matters in art and life is to go against the tidal wave of literalism and literal-mindedness-to insist on and live the life of the imagination.