My Imagination Quotes - Page 10

• Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

  Tom Waits

  Reality, Men, Imagination

  "Tom Waits Spills the Beans to Tom Waits". Interview with Joan Anderman, www.boston.com. May 22, 2008.

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• I never start with what lots of people think of as a subject or a theme. They're school words, not art words. So, writing essays busts my arse because the art is in addressing the subject. I find it really difficult and monstrously time-consuming. In an essay I need to employ my imagination but it's indentured in a way it's not when I'm free to make everything up.

  Tim Winton

  Art, Writing, School

  Source: www.readings.com.au

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• Usually when I'm painting something it takes a lot of focus. I have the room I go into called the white room. In my imagination when I'm really focused I go into that white room and all that's there is me, my painting, and my tools. There's no distraction. When I'm really concentrated I like to have it silent but when I'm doing something that doesn't have to be necessarily perfect, I can just go for it.

  Autumn de Forest

  Perfect, Imagination, Focus

  Source: keymagfw.com

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• There are people a lot smarter than me investigating nature versus nurture who would have a lot to say about that, but I think it's an enormous privilege to be born into a family where my parents had enough time to read to me and listen to my stories and foster my imagination. It's a privilege to have time to investigate your imagination. And not to have, like, an amount of stress on you as a kid that prevents you from maturing creatively.

  Zoe Kazan

  Stress, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I myself was terrified during the Second World War. The war started when I was six, and I was so sure that we were going to be bombed and killed. My imagination is my biggest plus and my worst minus.

  Patricia Reilly Giff

  War, Imagination, World

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• I have enough love to last me a lifetime! Thank God I'll never lose my imagination and my passion. That's really what it is. I'm still passionate about what I do.

  Teena Marie

  Passion, Imagination, Thank God

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• I'm very fortunate, and the movies that I've made, even from the very beginning, have been very eclectic. The thing for me is: Am I emotionally engaged in the idea? Is there something special about it? Does it capture my imagination? So everything that I do is simply something that turns me on. And I have the good fortune to be able to make bigger movies and television that ostensibly pay for the other ones. I don't mean literally finance the movies. But they allow me to work on things for very little pay. I do these things because I love them.

  Mark Gordon

  Mean, Imagination, Special

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I think my imagination and my passions are still firing away, but it's really the body that starts to make up the rules. It's not a major problem; it's just when you get a little older you realize how much your body thanks you when you are good to it.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Thank You, Passion, Thinking

  "If Music Be the Food of Love, Play on, Rufus Wainwright". Interview with Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. June 25, 2016.

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• Narrative nonfiction was not my forte. I always wanted to let my imagination run free, and the facts sometimes got in the way. At one point I wanted to illustrate Jack Prelutsky's enchanting poems. Unable to do that, I started devising and improvising my own poems, very raw at first. I immersed myself in verse, writing reams of stuff until it gelled.

  Douglas Florian

  Running, Writing, Imagination

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I'm asked all the time, "Doesn't it feel great to finish the novel?" And the answer to that is, "No." It's sort of a loss to stop a 10-year project, which is an imaginary project in the sense that it's a work of my imagination. The people who I've lived with for 10 years in my imagination are now sort of defunct. To lose them is rather a mournful process - it's not a relief.

  Bob Shacochis

  Loss, People, Imagination

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I feel like I'm a much better person when I'm developing my imagination and my innocence and my vulnerability. I like that version of me better than the version where I'm just working on my analytical mind.

  Brit Marling

  Imagination, Mind, Innocence

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• If the winds of fortune are temporarily blowing against you, remember that you can harness them and make them carry you toward your definite purpose, through the use of your imagination.

  Napoleon Hill

  Wind, Imagination, Purpose

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.252, Penguin

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• Tim Price has captured my imagination on many occasions with his forward thinking arrangements and wonderfully captivating playing. He is a unique musician made more unique because he has searched and found his own voice. Truly a rare find in music.

  Jeff Coffin

  Unique, Thinking, Voice

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• All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination.

  Napoleon Hill

  Temporary Defeat, Imagination, Waiting

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• Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.

  Jack Prelutsky

  Writing, Opportunity, Play

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• At school any spontaneous act was likely to get me into trouble. I learned never to act on impulse, and that whatever came into my mind first should be rejected in favour of better ideas. I learned that my imagination Wasn’t ‘good’ enough. I learned that the first idea was unsatisfactory because it was (1) psychotic; (2) obscene; (3) unoriginal. The truth is that the best ideas are often psychotic, obscene and unoriginal.

  Keith Johnstone

  School, Ideas, Imagination

  Keith Johnstone (2017). “Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre”, p.82, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's how I identify.

  Jessica Hagedorn

  Grandmother, Imagination, Identity

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• The thought of a comedy with paid prostitutes always seemed so silly and purposeless, for a person hired by me could never take the place of my imagination of a 'cruel mistress'.

  Richard von Krafft-Ebing

  Silly, Imagination, Mistress

  Richard Von Krafft-Ebing (2013). “Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Forensic Study”, p.146, Butterworth-Heinemann

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• Look at life through the wrong end of the telescope.

  Dr. Seuss

  Cells, Imagination, Brain

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• I do not hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them gleich alles zusammen - at the same time all together.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Imagination, Together

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• I have never looked for dream in reality or reality in dream. I have allowed my imagination free play, and I have not been led astray by it.

  Gustave Moreau

  Dream, Reality, Play

  "The Many Faces of Gustave Moreau" by Bennett Schiff, August 1999.

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• Since childhood, I was afflicted with a sick hypersensitivity, and my imagination quickly turned everything into a memory, too quickly: sometimes one day was enough, or an interval of a few hours, or a routine change of place, for an everyday event with a lyrical value that I did not sense at the time, to become suddenly adorned with a radiant echo, the echo ordinarily reserved only for those memories which have been standing for many years in the powerful fixative of lyrical oblivion.

  Danilo Kis

  Memories, Powerful, Years

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• Give me a kiss to build a dream on
  And my imagination will thrive upon that kiss
  Sweetheart, I ask no more than this
  A kiss to build a dream on.

  Louis Armstrong

  Dream, Kissing, Giving

  Song: A Kiss To Build A Dream On, Album: Hello, Dolly!

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• I've talked to a few writers who have had childhood illnesses. The sense of convalescence - the feeling that you're waiting to become a real person - is quite an interesting thing. You're seeing all of your friends doing amazing things and you're just there, in a void, feeling a bit stupid. I wouldn't be able to say what I'd have been like without it, but maybe I'd be incredibly high-powered and successful. It also forced me to spend most of my time in my imagination.

  Evie Wyld

  Real, Stupid, Successful

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Farewell, Atlanta, Imagination

  James Weldon Johnson (2012). “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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