Quotes About Imagination

The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking for inspiration?

I don't think anybody is a poet 24/7, only in those rare moments when a person is producing a poem.

It is very rare that I am just coming up with melodies off the top of my head. I usually am responding to something - it could be chains dragging on the floor - but I am usually responding to something.

It's really the rare creator who can tell you where he's going to end the season of 22 episodes. That's not bad. That's part of the creative exploration.

My dad had his own business and was extremely busy, but on a very rare occasion, he would play guitar and sing a bit. I was always fascinated by it. I wrote my first song in first grade because my dad was making songs up during those special moments, and it seemed like a fun thing to try myself.

I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.

An essay is a thing of the imagination. If there is information in an essay, it is by-the-by, and if there is an opinion, one need not trust it for the long run. A genuine essay rarely has an educational, polemical, or sociopolitical use; it is the movement of a free mind at play.

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

I rarely go into a shop on holiday, because fashion and design are what I'm involved in every day. I need another world.

If not for my mom, I wouldn't be a writer today. When I was a little girl, I rarely saw her without a book in her hand.

Rarely do I try to pull a creature out of life and make it a character.

Inspiration takes many forms, but it's rarely pure.

Rarely does a complete idea come to me. I basically start with just a small scene or a snatch of dialogue and force myself to write and to keep writing. Sometimes it becomes a book.

Pictures often sit inside of pictures, but the edges of pictures and objects are rarely subjected to serious challenge; we are presented with distinct, whole pictures and objects.

I grew up with 'The Little Rascals' and always try to work a link into every one of my movies.

Part of writing a novel is being willing to leap into the blackness. You have very little idea, really, of what's going to happen. You have a broad sense, maybe, but it's this rash leap.

There's a picture of me at 3 years old playing the baby rat in 'The Pied Piper.'

I'm not so presumptuous to feel that they're gonna get it right away, get exactly what I have in mind. I hope that they'll enjoy looking at it at any rate, whatever it is. And that's why I started writing stories on my work.

I knew I wanted to be some kind of artist from about 12. I met a neighbour who drew cartoons, and I had an idea I wanted to be a cartoonist - or something that involved Indian ink, at any rate.

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.

I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather be in.

Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.