Quotes about Imagination

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

I probably know everything there is to know about Disney.

The secret sauce of the business that I can offer is my creativity, and in order to keep my creativity alive and fresh, I have to pretend that no one is watching the show, that there are no audiences, there are no ratings; I'm just telling a story.

A house, having been willfully purchased and furnished, tells us more than a body, and its description is a foremost resource of the art of fiction.

A poem… begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is never a thought to begin with. It is at its best when it is a tantalizing vagueness.

The artist in me cries out for design.

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

In the fable, the garden is a symbol for the mind.

literature enlarges our world of experience to include both more of the physical world and things not yet imagined, giving the "actual world" a "new dimension of depth" (Lewis, Of Other Worlds 29). This makes it possible for literature to strip Christian doctrines of their "stained glass" associations and make them appear in their "real potency" (37), a possibility Lewis himself realized in the Narnia series and the space trilogy.

As Francis Schaeffer reminded us, "The Christian is the one whose imagination should fly beyond the stars