Quotes About Imagination

What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life it finds it absurd.

One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.

Photography, for me, is a lot like web surfing in real life.

Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale.

I spend my working life pretending to be someone else.

Movement is the translation of life, and if art depicts life, movement should come into art, since we are only aware of living because it moves.

At this point in my life, I find myself obsessed with alternate paths I could've taken. I don't think about this with a sense of regret, but with a sense of wonder.

For me, animation is the caricature of life. It's something that we create, from the ground up.

I like to convey the idea that art is important in everyday life.

Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.

The inspiration can come in such small ways that if you sit there just waiting for the big epiphany you'll sit there for the rest of your life.

Art is the result of a creative impulse derived out of a consciousness of life.

Fiction that adds up, that suggests a "logical consistency," or an explanation of some kind, is surely second-rate fiction; for the truth of life is its mystery.

Life without literature is a life reduced to penury.

Neel takes a sharp breath and I know exactly what it means. It means: I have waited my whole life to walk through a secret passage built into a bookshelf.

Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images.

From my point of view, which is that of a storyteller, I see your life as something artful, waiting, just waiting and ready for you to make it art.

It is as if Emily Brontë could tear up all that we know human beings by, and fill these unrecognizable transparencies with such a gust of life that they transcend reality.

I don't want the public to see the world they live in while they're in the Park (Disneyland). I want to feel they're in another world.

Art is thus materialized dream, separated from the ordinary consciousness of waking life

Life should be lived as play.

When you're being truly creative, time stands still, and you enter a dimension that can carry you beyond the ordinariness of everyday life.

A writer doesn't solve problems. He allows them to emerge.

Everything in art must spring from the movement of our whole life-stream, of our whole being - including the unconscious.