Quotes About Imagination

Life is a dream even in its most painful moments, it's a dream that we can dance to.

I've never done anything but dream. This, and this alone, has been the meaning of my life. My only real concern has been my inner life.

All life is a dream, and all dreams are dreams.

I look on my life as raw material for my novels: that's just the way I am, and it frees me from any inhibitions.

Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life, and from their hands it comes in fair, articulate forms to bless the world.

The object of art is to give life shape.

There is nothing as unreal as life.

The goal of the artist is not to resolve life's mysteries, but to deepen them.

It is my feeling that a story is not finished until it is read, and that the reader finishes it through his or her life experience, prejudices, worldview and thoughts.

You have to leave room in life to dream.

If ever they remembered their life in this world it was as one remembers a dream.

Life's missed opportunities, at the end, may seem more poignant to us than those we embraced — because in our imagination they have a perfection that reality can never rival.

To me and my kind life itself is a story and we have to tell it in stories - that is the way it falls.

The power of a dream is that it frees up your imagination to think about the best possible scenario for your life.

Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we do it all the time.

Life is a creation, not a discovery. You do not live each day to discover what it holds for you, but to create it

Real life doesn't have to be convincing, but fiction does.

The very freedom and expressiveness we find missing in life we find present in art.

As a child, my whole life was books. They were my fantasy. That's where I could go. That was a lot of times [what] saved me.

I'm a big child at heart. I think it's important to stay that way and not lose the wonder of life.

Imagine a new story for your life and start living it.

The greatest happiness in life is to be truly and consistently creative.

That which dominates our imagination and our thoughts will determine our life and character.

Being an artist is celebrating life.