Quotes About Imagination

Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs.

The desire is the father of the thought.

The monkey looks into the mirror and sees a gazelle.

Thoughts and dreams are the foundation of our being.

Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems.

It's a kindness that the mind can go where it wishes.

Everything we can imagine has the potential to become reality of our life. Everything that we see around us today was imagined first by someone. We have the power to manifest our dream life."

Life became Magical when I started believing in its Magic.

Dreams become reality when we put our minds to it.

I don't wait for inspiration. I'm not, in fact, quite sure what inspiration is, but I'm sure that if it is going to turn up, my having started work is the precondition of its arrival.

Drawing is a science, painting is just something for the long winter evenings.

You can't write poetry on the computer.

I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.

Now, many directors could and would say, So what? It's just a movie. You don't have to believe in giant monkeys to direct King Kong.

I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.

Y si en vez de planear tanto voláramos un poco más alto?

To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.

For it is feeling and force of imagination that makes us eloquent.

Art originates in experiment

Memories are like dreams, free of meaning save for that which we choose to impart.

Je montrerai comment ce peu de bruit inérieur qui n'est rien, contient tout, [...] comment un cerveau isolé du monde peut se créer un monde.

We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.

Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.

Even if atheists were right--that prayer is wishful thinking--they are right only in relation to God, not in relation to wishing. The importance of prayer is that it is an expression of our spiritual nature, and when we wish for love, peace,for our own good and the good of others we define ourselves as more than flesh and blood. We define ourselves as hoping, loving, and imagining beings who crave to know the source of our being.