Quotes About Imagination

Don't get it right, just get it written.

You know those things that you throw the twigs into and it spits them out? That's what I do. The branches are like life, and I throw them into my head and some of it comes out as humor.

The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life.

Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.

Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.

Life is serious but art is fun!

I define the American dream as the ability to imagine a way that you want your life to turn out, and have a reasonable hope that you can achieve that.

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.

The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.

The writer's life seethes within but not without.

Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories

Ghetto-dwellers are the great fantasists. There was an extraordinary vibrancy there, an imaginative life. When you are that poor, all you've got left is your belief in the imagination.

I feel life is so small unless it has windows into other worlds.

I understood that life is lived most fully in the imagination - that, ironically, imagination is the key to reality.

I have no imagination; I just steal from life and change the color. Then it's a comic book.

No matter how far we go into the future, there will always be new things happening, new information coming in, new worlds to explore, a constantly expanding domain of life, consciousness, and memory.

Art is the great stimulus to life.

It appears these days I don't have much of a life because my nose is often stuck in a book. But I discovered that reading builds a life inside the mind.

In retrospect I would say from Donald Duck I have learned more about life than from all the schools I ever attended.

Knowledge and imagination are the life buoy and the extra lung for breathing outside the walls of a tainted reality.