Quotes About Imagination

Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater To raise the dead to life than to create Phantoms that seem to live.

For me books have always been an incredibly solid part of my life, both as escapism and simply as resource.

When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.

Every vital organization owes its birth and life to an exciting and daring idea.

[A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life.

The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.

I find that the only way to get through life is to picture myself in an entirely disconnected reality.

The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.

It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.

We need only in cold blood to act as if the thing in question were real and it will infallibly end by growing into such a connection with our life that it will become real.

Each book can make a life or a fragment of it more beautiful.

For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live.

Novelty is vital to the stimulation of life... New neural paths are sparked by caving in to notions.

Life's tallest order is to keep the feelings up, to make two dollars' worth of euphoria go the distance. And life can't do that. So fiction does.

Fantasy allows you bend the world and the situation to more clearly focus on the moral aspects of what's happening. In fantasy you can distill life down to the essence of your story.

I think actresses are imagined to be these subjects of great vanity. Life is change; physicality changes. It's transient, and that's a beautiful and a painful thing.

To become a painter or a sculptor or a graphic designer is quite an isolated way to spend your life.

If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.

Creativity is a space for solitary longing, the desire to be elsewhere in space and time, to be in a new ideal world where life is as it should be.

You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.

A lie to get out of something, or take an advantage for oneself, that's one thing; but a lie to make life more interesting—well, that's entirely different.

Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.

The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.

I did my homework and didn't go out much, and had a very highly developed kitsch fantasy life where I dreamed of being a dancing girl.