Quotes about Imagination

Paul hesitated. There'd been no dwarf in the vision, but all else remained identical.

This is the perspective which you create with your own belief, and beliefs can be manipulated by imagination.

If wishes were fishes we'd all cast nets.

Because we cannot imagine a thing, that doesn't exclude it from reality.

1. An honest ego in a healthy body 2. An eye to see nature 3. A heart to feel nature 4. Courage to follow nature 5. A sense of proportion (humor) 6. Appreciation of work as idea and idea as work 7. Fertility of imagination 8. Capacity for faith and rebellion 9. Disregard for commonplace (inorganic) elegance 10. Instinctive cooperation

I'm from Paris, Texas, okay! I remember looking up and just dreaming to one day make it on an airplane.

The first thing I put down on paper is a storyboard, like a film director.

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of creation are the obvious ones of working with paint of clay or words. Creativity is a way of living life, no matter our vocation or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts, or having some kind of important career.

It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before breakfast, for we are called on to believe what to many people is impossible. Instead of rejoicing in this glorious impossible which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his might actions comprehensible to our finite minds.

You mean you're comparing our lives to a sonnet? A strict form, but freedom within it? Yes. Mrs. Whatsit said. You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you.

In reading we must become creators.