Unrestrained Imagination Quotes

But only in their dreams can men be truly free. It was always thus and always thus will be.

I've got a pretty wild imagination, and a lot of times, I have to be reeled back in.

All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness.

I'm bad at doing what I'm told. I'm a born free thinker.

I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated.

There must be courage; there must be no awe. There must be criticism, for humor, to my mind, is encapsulated in criticism. There must be a disciplined eye and a wild mind...There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about it.

Can the imagination, any more than the boy, be held prisoner ?" - from the foreword to the 1976 edition of "The Painted Bird

Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky; whereas fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind's will.

It's as if a child with a brush and too much enthusiasm has been set free with a tin of black paint inside me.

I'm a free spirit and that definitely comes from my upbringing, so it's definitely shaped me as an artist.

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable. The pressure of ideas would simply drive it frantic.

How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us, we devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.

You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.

The mania is like wasps under the skin, like my head's going to explode with ideas.

Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren't turned properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote of sources.

Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.

I am a dangerous man when turned loose with a typewriter.

My mind is led astray by every faint rustle.

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.

Dreamers can't be tamed.

Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.

Panic! for me has been an outlet for nonchalant chaos. It gives me full ride to fulfill this dream that anything is possible because of this band.

A writer must be fearless. A writer has to be like a clawed animal." -The Carrie Diaries pg. 337