Quotes About Imagination

Begin to imagine what the desirable outcome would be like. Go over these mental pictures and delineate details and refinements. Play them over and over to yourself.

If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be?

That is why it's so fun to make movies... you get to do lots of things you would never do in your normal life.

[Peake's books] are actual additions to life; they give, like certain rare dreams, sensations we never had before, and enlarge our conception of the range of possible experience.

I'm not sure anyone's life turns out exactly the way they imagine. All we can do is to try to make the best of it. Even when it seems impossible.

I haven't personally in my real life had many people close to me die, but my characters have, and I've had to live that as though it's real. And it can take a really big emotional toll on someone.

All my originality consists?in giving life in human fashion to beings which are impossible according to the laws of possibility.

If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.

It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

The experience of life is very bitter. it is sweet only in imagination. In its reality it is very bitter. He escaped from the palace and the women and the riches and the luxury and everything.

How is it we're the lucky ones, living a life that the children-we-were took for dreams?

I remember at the age of six regaling my poor little sister with stories about the planets, and how far away they were and which ones might have life.

Things you did. Things you never did. Things you dreamed. After a long time they run together.

The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.

As a child, I watched 'Dallas' and that was my vision for my life for as long as I could remember.

Realism is death to me. I cannot stand life as it is.

Creativity is dynamic, it asserts life, frees the human spirit, conquers mental lassitude and illness, and makes real the outrageous potential of the universal imagination.

What happens in a fantasy can be more involving than what happens in life, and thank goodness for that.

The reason I feel like I act is because you get to live a million different lives in one. I don't have to go about my life.

Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.

Not everything in life can or should be explained. Part of every painting should be incomplete...to be completed in the mind of the viewer.

The world is about the way in which our dreams intersect with our real life. Endlessly, the world of the imagination changes the world.

I can't think of a more philosophical time in a person's life than when they are children. It's the one time when ideas are really beautiful and amazing and all-encompassing. They are life.

Art springs from life but it doesn't mean we have to be tyrannized by it.