Quotes About Imagination

...sometimes we enter art to hide within it. It is where we can go to save ourselves, where a third-person voice protects us.

Myths are made for the imagination to breath life into them.

You have to color outside the lines once in a while if you want to make your life a masterpiece.

I didn't arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.

I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.

I live an artistic double life: one of classical realism and the other of aesthetic exploration.

I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life.

Maybe there are only three kinds of stories: those we live, those we tell, and those that help our souls fly upwards to a greater life.

Life is too short to be little. You must enlarge your imagination and then act on it.

A dream of life comes to me, like a catfish dancing on the end of the line.

There is no greater path to mediocrity in life than trying to be realistic.

This is a modern fairytale. No happy endings. No wind in our sails. But I can't imagine a life without. Breathless moments.

Sometimes I feel like the Tom Hanks character in Big. But my life is not a movie. I never have to go back to Coney Island to find the fortune-teller machine so I have to grow up again.

The good life (for your kids) is where you make the ordinary extraordinary, where you make the natural miraculous. It's where you make the everyday unique.

If I had my life to live over, I would never dream

The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.

One wants to be able to experience being other people, remaking a reality, remaking a life, remaking a certain world.

I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.

A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.

No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.

Our greatest national resource is the minds of our children.

First thought is best in Art, second in other matters.

Growing up I always loved films that transport you to another world and has things you never see in every day life.

At the very beginning, I said my life and Playboy are a Rorschach test. It's a culmination of the dreams and fantasies and prejudices you bring to the table