Uninhibited Imagination Quotes

perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.

When you work with filmmakers, and it's their first film, there's an exuberance and optimism, which is quite... There's no room for being jaded. Thinking that you know it all.

Creative individuals tend to be smart, yet also naive at the same time... Creative individuals have a combination of playfulness and discipline, or responsibility and irresponsibility.

I've hardly had an avant-garde career... If you're going to make a film, you have to try to make sure it comes out of a childlike passion, as if you're doing it for the first time.

A child sees everything in a sense of newness - he is always drunk. Genius is nothing but childhood re-attained at will.

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotchpotch of impulses, our perpetual miracle - for the soul throws up wonders every second. Movement and change are the essence of our being; rigidity is death; conformity is death; let us say what comes into our heads, repeat ourselves, contradict ourselves, fling out the wildest nonsense, and follow the most fantastic fancies without caring what the world does or thinks or says. For nothing matters except life.

Children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations. Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up.

Children are the only brave philosophers. And brave philosophers are, inevitably, children.

Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for.

I just close my eyes and act like I'm a 3-year-old. I try to get as close to a childlike level as possible because we were all artists back then. So you just close your eyes and think back to when you were as young as you can remember and had the least barriers to your creativity.

Illness sets the mind free sometimes to roam and surmise.

The imagination is the liberty of the mind It is intrpeid and eager and the extreme of its achievement lies in abstraction.

When I have something to say that I think will be too difficult for adults, I write it in a book for children. Children are excited by new ideas; they have not yet closed the doors and windows of their imaginations. Provided the story is good... nothing is too difficult for children.

Creativity is about play and a kind of willingness to go with your intuition. It's crucial to an artist. If you know where you are going and what you are going to do, why do it? I think I learned that from the artists, from my grandmother, from all the creative people I've spent time with over the years.

I've been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me.

I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, it's self-consciousness.

You cannot be creative with people around you.

The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

I was always a bit concerned about purity of essence. I never wanted a job that might affect the way I wrote or thought.

You litter poems with too much learning when you're younger.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

Grownups have a tendency to talk themselves out of things, saying it will never work, but kids are fabulously optimistic.