Anatole France Quotes

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be.

And where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world

I'd like to recover some of the strangeness and wonder of consideration of the future.

Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...'; And then do it.

Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Nothing happens unless first we dream.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

If you're trying to be more creative, one of the most important things you can do is increase the volume and diversity of the information to which you are exposed.

Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.

I feel so free and open to ideas, and I get inspired by everything.

An interest in ideas is a sign of human life. People are fascinated by what the future is going to be - and the future is going to be an accumulation of ideas.

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

I don't ever want to lose that mind-set where you've got to be able to realize different ideas-slash-fantasies-slash-possibilities in your life.

Imagination - that's the future for us.

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.

I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.

You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.

Some men see things as they are and say “Why?” I dream things that never were and say, “Why not?”

I've never been one of those guys who storyboards every frame, because that would take away some of the mystery and some of the fun.