Quotes About Imagination

I learned that creativity is all about being frustrated.

It frustrated me as a kid. Like, why didn't I just wake up every morning shooting half-court shots from my bedroom?

With Marvel, I obviously don't own the characters, so there are levels of approval to go through. But I'm very seldom told no, and never without reason. Maybe I've just been lucky; I don't know, but I don't think it's as frustrating as people generally imagine. I act as though I own it all while I'm writing, I think. I hope, anyway.

A lot of times, you have an idea, and all the things you are thinking about might fuel it. But that's not where the idea came from.

I don't think about race before I start drawing. I think about how to make that mark to fit whatever purpose I need it to fulfill.

Perhaps our imagination needs crime stories to fulfill some craving we have, as a way to assuage a darkness in ourselves.

I like to be fulfilled in telling stories and in creating, but I'm just a curious person.

'Doctor Who' is really challenging and fulfilling on so many levels.

All of us write wish fulfillment.

An empty canvas is full.

Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.

Going into a shoot not fully knowing what I want to do - that excitement, that thing that happens, is just so powerful and makes such great pictures.

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.

The most fundamental important thing for me as an actor is maintaining a sense of play. It's so important.

I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.

When I was a kid, I would fantasize about my own funeral.

Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.

I would love to design a car. And shoes, like funky Keds maybe.

I had a lot of funky things as a kid. I had dinosaurs and comic book stuff. I was eccentric; imagination drove my decor. Dinosaurs, for sure, were in there!

I don't want to design something that everybody else would do. I want to design something that's bigger or better or funnier or more beautiful.

You take from things that you read about in the news or things you hear about or things that happen to you, and you collectively sit in a room with everyone, and everyone decides what the funniest stories are that you've heard or thought of.

So we see, to play successfully the game of life, we must train the imaging faculty.

Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.