Quotes About Imagination

One handy piece of equipment, which I recommend to any writer of fiction, is a set of Myriorama cards. I consult them frequently.

We write the songs that we do because that's what we like. But they are just stories - not things we actually do or recommend anyone else go out and do.

I get asked a lot what books I recommend for a nursery, home library, etc., and I always tell parents to start with what they loved as children, what they want to share, and broaden out from there.

I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.

Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.

There's one song that I recorded called 'Saviour' and every single sound from that song was actually recorded in a shipyard on my iPhone.

It helps to write as the character that I am trying to be, and try to journal every day as them. Once I've already recorded thoughts as this person, it's easier to just flip back through and be like, 'Oh, yeah, this is what she's thinking; this is what she's feeling.'

Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush.

The best recording is the one you bring with you in your mind.

If I'm recording a song, and it's kind of fuzzed out, but I've got this super candy melody, I feel nothing but freedom that I can just sing over the top, and it will be appreciated. It won't be like, 'What is he doing?'

That's what so great about making movies. It's that you get to do stuff you never would be able to do in real life. You get to go to a recording studio, you get to go to Navy ships and fly all over the world for press. And it's just a great job.

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.

I am always thinking about records I want to make.

A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.

The day I run out of ideas is the day I stop making records.

I don't have a clear biography of my own that I could recount in an interesting way. I'm made up of the characters that I pulled out of my head, that I invented.

The American imagination has never been able to fully recover from its white-supremacist beginnings.

You have to recover the capacity to imagine yourself as an ideal and figure out how to project that into the world.

It's not that hard to imagine the natural world recovering it's health in our absence: it's more difficult, and more necessary, to imagine it recovering its health in our presence.

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

There's no way to reconstruct reality. It happened once. What you do is reinterpret and recreate. Even if you have the person who lived it and did it next to you, the event happened just once.

I saw 'Beauty and the Beast' at eight years old in theatres and spent hours trying to recreate the majestic imagery of that story in a drawing notepad at home.

Most actors I know come from a screwed up background, so it makes sense that if you can walk on to a space and recreate your reality, then that's the place that will become very dear.