- Shy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Imagination Quotes
The inner world that fuels everything made real.
These imagination quotes link creativity to childhood spontaneity, personal experience, and even economic theory, with one quote suggesting that imagination in economics lags behind the systems it studies. Musicians here describe imagination as something that has to stay current to keep capturing attention. See Dream for a related theme.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've studied a technique called the Sanford Miesner technique, that teaches you how to focus. It's mainly about daydreaming. And the technique's really about imaginary circumstances. Using your imagination to sort of daydream about stuff. It makes you emotional in a scene.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and usually that's in the world of the supernatural or the world of the fantastic, so that's why those kinds of stories about demons and the supernatural appeal to me or maybe I'm really interested in that subject.
- Nov 07, 2020
One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
- Vivid
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a vivid, apocalyptic imagination.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm used to music as a tool, taking the various elements and then making something completely new out of them. And writing film music is the perfect opportunity to do that, because you can look at the film and then just let your imagination soar.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do as much comedy as I possibly can, but I'm basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions.
- Color
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not that a literature for children of color doesn't exist; it's that so much of the extant literature is lacking in the essential quality that makes literature for children so extraordinary a form: imagination.
- Francisco
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in the D.C. suburbs, and what I like about that place is that there's not a strong regional affect in the cultural imagination like there is in Dallas or San Francisco or New York City. You have a little more freedom as a novelist this way. The suburbs become a generic idea, and the place doesn't intrude into the narrative.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that in the cultural imagination, motherhood has a primacy that fatherhood just doesn't; and that's not to say that there aren't many fathers who are active and engaged and for whom that is their life's passion. But somehow, in the imagination, there's something different about maternity.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, I had a very vivid imagination and Leonardo was like my best imaginary friend that I spoke to. When things were tough, or I was scared in an unsafe environment, I always imagined that the Ninja Turtles would come to the rescue.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
The wonderful thing is, imagination is universal all over the world, no matter what the language is.
- Breakfast Cereal
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- Nov 07, 2020