Quotes About Imagination

Until people see poetry as springing from all of life, they will isolate it in a creativity corner and treat it like a mascot.

I've never turned into a bee - I've never been chased by a mummy or met a ghost. But many of the ideas in my books are suggested by real life.

The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight.

To trade a childhood wonder for a plausible explanation - is there a worst trade one makes in life?

Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.

In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them

My whole career from the early 70s on has been mind-blowing. I didn't imagine in my life that I would ever be considered a guitar player first of all because I started off as a singer.

I have wandered many roads that I have never traveled; touched many things that my eyes have never seen. It is through stories that life is made, and through stories that life is saved.

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often. It's a mysterious condition. It's much like the life of a Catholic nun. You're married to a mystery.

I could fill an entire second life with working on my prints.

If every cigarette you smoke takes seven minutes off of your life, every game of Dungeons & Dragons you play delays the loss of your virginity by seven hours.

The future interests me - I'm going to spend the rest of my life there.

It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.

Just 'cause somethin' ain't been done Don't mean it can't be did.

Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what's going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can.

Have a vision and then create your own reality. Otherwise, someone else may create it for you.

You'll be a poorer person all your life if you don't know some of the great stories and great poems.

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.

I want to liberate my imagination and my mind with every kind of movie. That is what I wanted to do all my life.

Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.

Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves.