Quotes About Imagination

You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes the adventure of painting.

The function of the artist is to organize the facets of life according to his imagination.

If we believe in magic, we'll live a magical life.

Think about all the tomorrows of your life.

We shouldn't be afraid to embrace whimsy, that nagging idea that life could be magical; it could be special if we were only willing to take a few risks.

To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.

There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.

If we understood the enigmas of life there would be no need for art.

She liked to imagine that when she passed the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was.

I have had a long, long life full of troubles, but there is one curious fact about them-nine-tenths of them never happened.

Live the rest of your life in possibility

We all use the future to escape the present.

Writing is a suspension of life in order to re-create life

I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can't or don't do in my normal everyday life.

I believe that hope for the future depends on each of us taking nonviolence into our hearts and minds and developing new and imaginative structures which are nonviolent and life-giving for all.

What makes things exciting in life is to overcome your challenges and get creative and think outside of the box.

Much of life becomes background, but it is the province of art to throw buckets of light into the shadows and make life new again.

Look at life through the wrong end of the telescope.

homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i'm always missing someone or someplace or something, i'm always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. my life has been one long longing.

All my life, I've dreamed in gold.

See things as you would have them be, instead of as they are.

There is no corner of life where art is not needed. There is no corner of art where life is not needed.

Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.

When I started to paint I felt transported into a kind of paradise... In everyday life I was usually bored and vexed... Starting to paint I felt gloriously free.