Quotes About Imagination

All I ever wanted was a world without maps.

To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.

Some of my favorite places I have been in my life exist only in dreams.

I grew up watching movies that just transformed my vision, not just in cinema, in life, and you discover that this - it's an endless tool.

In the end, the key ingredient for public life is imagination. You imagine something better, you try to bring the people with you.

I remember one time that I was filming a scene in whych my character rides through Troy on a chariot. I just looked around at this incredible set thinking 'This is the life'.

We are the possibilities and the unshattered dream, we are what gives life magick.

What is worthwhile in life? I think it is worth living and dreaming. If you don't you may be dead anyhow - inside.

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.

Things are so beautiful and wonderful, you feel there must be another life where you will see more - hear more - and know more. All of it cannot die.

I don't even do anything in real life. I just sit in my studio and write, I call my friends, I watch television. I don't do anything.

Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work.

If you're going to be an artist, real life is your inspiration.

There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened.

You should always have 2 books...the one you're reading and the one you're writing.

Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.

Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

I don't exist without writing.

An artist's most valuable asset is individuality.

No science fiction or fantasy is going to help me. I live in a too-real world.

if you're going to use the word 'dream' in a poem, you had better be langston hughes.

this moment past peak oil, a large percentage of blockbuster movies are apocalyptic; superheroes are in vogue. What does the black imagination have to offer to the survival of human life on planet earth?

What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth.