Quotes About Imagination

Art doesn't begin with a brush and a palette, but with the artist's ability to perceive life. You have to learn how to live before you can learn how to paint.

Your life is a blank page. You write on it.

When you peered into the windows of someone else's life, you could only guess what was going on.

We overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination... down our earth to rake.

Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it.

Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

Everyones greatest fantasy is to walk away from the life (they think)you lead

All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories.

And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop and watch it.

Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.

Stories are a different kind of true.

The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination.

I'd always need a creative outlet. But sometimes, I do fantasize what my life would be like if I weren't famous.

Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it.

There's so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you can forget your own sorrow as you act and become somebody else.

Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life.

The key to life is imagination.

My life is a creative act--like a painting, or a concerto.

The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.

Personal life becomes paler as the imaginative life becomes richer.

Poetry creates life; Science dissects death.

Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.

Working from photos makes you a little more analytical, a little more cerebral, because you're less connected to the intensity of life.