Quotes about Imagination

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 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

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

He was part of my dream, of course -- but then I was part of his dream, too.

The Mad Hatter: Would you like some wine? Alice: Yes... The Mad Hatter: We haven't any and you're too young.

And what is the use of a book, thought Alice, without pictures or conversation?

Just look down the road and tell me if you can see either of them. I see nobody on the road. said Alice. I only wish I had such eyes,the King remarked in a fretful tone. To be able to see Nobody! And at such a distance too!