Quotes About Imagination

Yeah, it's fun to be somebody you're not, to bring a character to life.

Something about your life always makes its way into your stories. Thats just the nature of the beast.

Some folks think I painted Lincoln from life, but I haven't been around that long. Not quite.

It is not about painting life, it is about making painting alive.

Our treasures trifles seem, and all our life is dreaming, and the dreams themselves are dreams.

All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.

It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.

It should surprise no one that the life of the writer - such as it is - is colorless to the point of sensory deprivation. Many writers do little else but sit in small rooms recalling the real world.

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

I practice in my head.

Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.

Because reading is one of the joys of life, and once you begin, you can't stop, and you've got so many stories to look forward to.

You sit in your tepee and dream and then you go to wherever the dream may take you. It might come true. You wait for real life to catch up.

It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.

Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent.

I think imagination is one of the greatest blessings of life.

I knew nothing of the life of a real musician, of course, but somehow I seemed to see myself standing in front of great crowds of people, playing my accordion.

Usually I read biographies of interesting people. I am not attracted to novels - make-believe, or recreations of what people think life should be.

People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.

Both dance and dream are brought into being by the consciousness of a moment. They can never be repeated or successfully imitated. But you can dance and dream again. You must, if life is to continue.

Reality: What a concept!

Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.

The inclination of my life...has been to do things & make things which will give pleasure to people in new and amazing ways.

It has that thing - the imagination, and the feeling of happy excitement- I knew when I was a kid.