Unfettered Imagination Quotes

A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood.

Everybody, no matter how old you are, is around 24, 25 in their heart.

Little kids are amazing. They seem able to adjust to anything.

To be able to think freely, a man must be certain that no consequence will follow whatever he writes.

As a filmmaker, I always try not to concern myself with the outcome of things. I make the movie, and I do that as honestly and good as I can. I don't want to pollute my thoughts with what is going to happen with it afterwards, because I have to work inside-out.

Artistic imagination must remain free. It is by definition free from any fidelity to circumstances, especially to the intoxicating circumstances of history.

True life is creativity, not development: it is the freedom for creative acts, for creative fire, rather than necessity and the heaviness of congealing self-perfection.

I never knew any painter worthy of the name who paid the smallest attention to what a critic says, even in conversation.

Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free.

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

That's why children look so beautiful because they are yet full of hope, full of dreams, and they have not yet known frustration.

The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

The connection I make with being young and growing up is, like, the feeling of not being crushed by the world. Having an idea, thinking you can do it.

Your hands are tied in action, but your hands are not tied in imagination and everything springs forth from the imagination. Everything.

I find inspiration by feeling like I haven't done or achieved anything. I push all songs I've written to the furthest part of my mind so I am not thinking of what I've done. I continue to think on what I need to do.

It doesn't matter how old I get, I always act like an excited five year-old kid with severe ADD and a waddle at Disneyland.

Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters

When I wrote 'The Girl on the Train,' nobody knew who I was, and that's quite a comfortable position to be writing in.

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.

Life is a very orderly thing, but in fiction there is a huge liberation and freedom. I can do what I like. There's nothing that says I can't write a page of full stops. There is no 'should' involved, although you wouldn't know that from literary reviews and critics.

Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.

An artist makes a painting, and nobody bugs him or her about it. It's just you and your painting. To me, that's the way it should be with film as well.

We've let the blade of our innocence dull over time, and it's only in innocence that you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.

I've been lucky enough to have had the luxury of being able to make the picture I've wanted to make each time on my own terms and without compromise.

I'm used to being told what to say, but not what to think... that's usually left up to me.