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Quotes About Imagination

Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
I think superheroes are bigger than life and they're very colorful.
~ Stan Lee
Just because something isn't practical doesn't mean it's not worth creating. Sometimes beauty and real-life magic are enough.
~ Stephanie Perkins
The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test.
~ Stephen Vizinczey
I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retrieve a dream.
~ Theodore Sturgeon
Our judgment ripens; our imagination decays. We cannot at once enjoy the flowers of the Spring of life and the fruits of its Autumn.
~ Thomas B. Macaulay
Hang on to your dreams with everything you got. Because the best life is when your dreams come true. The second-best is when they don't but you never stop chasing them.
~ Tim Dorsey
It is very difficult to make the ideas in my head come to life, but what is harder is making them look effortless.
~ Tim Walker
I've always been a sponge, just absorbing whatever I see, whether it's in daily life or in art.
~ Tomi Ungerer
Life — how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
~ V. S. Pritchett
I try to research or make up for myself what happened in any character's life. From when he was born until the first page of the script. I fill in the blanks.
~ Viggo Mortensen
Money doesn't excite me - my ideas excite me.
~ Walt Disney
I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's
~ Wilfred Owen
The sorrows we imagine are more profound and inconsolable than real life leaves us time for.
~ Nan Fairbrother
Hold an image of the life you want, and that image will become fact.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
A normal life. Such a simple idea, but it's almost impossible for me to picture.
~ Pittacus Lore
Dream the biggest dream for yourself. Hold the highest vision of life for yourself.
~ Oprah Winfrey
You need to dream a bigger dream for yourself. That is the lesson. Hold the highest vision possible for your life and it can come true.
~ Oprah Winfrey
My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
~ Ralph Lauren
Just write every day of your life. Read intensely.
~ Ray Bradbury
Your imagination is more real that then the world you see, because the world you see comes from what you imagine and believe! What you believe and feel to be true is what will be your life.
~ Rhonda Byrne
The life of the mind is always more interesting than the real. The idea is often more interesting than the actual.
~ Rob Chapman
The only thing I ever wanted to be was a cartoonist. That's my Life. DRAWING.
~ Charles M. Schulz
Using one's imagination to the fullest is necessary for a happy life.
~ Claire Trevor