Quotes about Imagination

You don't know how paralyzing that is, that stare of a blank canvas, which says to the painter, 'You can't do a thing'.

Now and then when I am writing, I automatically do a small drawing, such as I sent you lately. I did one this morning representing Elijah in the desert under an orange sky, with some hawthorns in the foreground. It is nothing special, but I see it all so clearly before me, and I think that at such moments I could speak about it enthusiastically - may it be given me to do so later on.

Art is something which, though produced by human hands, is not wrought by hands alone, but wells up from a deeper source, from man's soul"_Page.268

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful.

As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.

Books are the mirrors of the soul.

For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.

Don't do anything that isn't play

The truth is that the sole reason we don't see the world all around us as magic is that we are jaded, too cool for the school of wonder.

The cool thing about my character was that it's not that digital. I get to put hours of prosthetic makeup on and see a different creature altogether. I've seen how he looks and it's really cool.

Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.