Quotes About Imagination

I only like non-fiction. After 30 pages of fiction, I think: what nonsense are they trying to write.

If you're a model, you're paid to be a muse.

Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.

Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing.

When I was younger I didn't really know what a director did: I knew I loved movies and I figured the actors made it up! And then when you get to 12 years old you start thinking, What does a director do? It was really an organic beginning: this looks like something I want to do, I can't believe people get paid to do it!

Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.

When I begin to write a story, I usually know how things will end. It's the journey toward that point I must discover. The process is sometimes painful, but also exciting.

Writers like to write, and writing in different forms - short, long, bite-sized, done on the fly, done with painstaking attention - all interest me.

Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?

I paint with shapes.

I've always wanted to be able to paint the dawn.

What I love to do is paint people's faces, y'know, their eyes. Because you want to find that emotion, see what's going on behind their eyes.

MS Paint was my creative outlet for many years.

If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all.

I paint what I see, not what a camera would see.

I think it would be really interesting to paint Obama.

I've always had a certain fascination. It's basically paint what you know, and this is what I grew up with.

I paint a bit myself. My house in Clerkenwell has a room that is done up like a big installation.

When I got my first loft, I still didn't know what I was going to paint... There were long stretches when I just sat there and thought without interruption.

Magic is my paint.

If I inherited a billion dollars and didn't have to work ever again, what would I do to fill my day? I'd paint, I'd write jokes and stories, and I'd hang out and chat to very interesting people.

I paint as if I were Rothschild.