Quotes About Imagination

In research, I wanted to establish the medicinal chemistry/bioassay conjugation as an academic pursuit, as exciting to the imagination as astrophysics or molecular biology.

The aim of any writer, even a fantasy writer, is the pursuit of truth.

I put the words down and push them a bit.

That way I look at it, I want to push myself to create things people could've never imagined. It's a good motto to have in the back of your head, I think.

The fun part for me is to just really push that envelope.

Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.

For me, restrictions are not always negative. Restrictions can push creativity. I like restrictions.

I had 'Push' and 'The Paperboy' next to my bed for many years. Those are some of the great, great novels.

I first came across the script for 'Macbeth' between the ages of 11 and 12; it was the first book that shook my life. Because I did not yet understand that I could simply purchase it in a bookstore, I copied much of it by hand and took it home. My childhood imagination pushed me to feel like a co-author of the play.

My parents always pushed creativity on us, but they made it seem like the fun thing to do.

People ask me, 'What happened in your life that might have pushed you as an artist to get to where you are today?' I always felt a little on the outside. And as such, you're always observing things. So, I'd be kind of re-creating these things in my mind, and I think drawing it was a way to deal with that.

Picture books are being marginalised. I get the feeling children are being pushed away from picture books earlier and earlier and being told to look at 'proper' books, which means books without pictures.

I always pushed back on doing long-form. I imagined SpongeBob as being simple, and I wanted to concentrate on character humor.

I love anything that really pushes the envelope as far as where it takes your mind. When it's well written and brings you into a world that possibly could be, I think that's the most entertaining for me - to see something that could actually take place and causes you to think.

Dating a creative pushes me to think outside the box.

London Fashion Week is always an exciting time because of the way it pushes boundaries, giving us a glimpse of what the future could look like.

Science fiction is my way of pushing the imagination onward. It's a way to understand how the world will look in the future.

You can be intuitive when you've got a more expansive role. You can get into the poetry of telling the story rather than just pushing buttons.

If someone leaves me a bad review, I briefly fantasize about pushing them down a well.

When people come to see my stand-up, they get a chance to see my characters interact with each other. I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.

For me, the amazing thing was entering into this amazing world of 'Sesame Street.' We'd be in the kids' room, and there was a door into the soundstage that said '1-2-3 Open Sesame.' I remember pushing that door open and going into this incredible magical world of make-believe. In one episode, I was playing football with Joe Namath.

I believe in the imperative to explore, so any project that I can be involved with that celebrates that, and expands people's imagination around that idea of pushing out, is one of the most positive things that I think I could be involved with.

I'm trying to just keep pushing on the things I've been wanting to do in my life and in music. And think of new things to do!

The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.