Quotes About Imagination

I'm a big fan of imagination. I think it's the strongest tool we have, and there are some things that you just can't practice.

More than anything, the arts are the best teaching tool.

Monsters are a storytelling tool, like domestic realism and close third.

In acting, the basic tool is observation. Whenever you see something, you store it in your head, and when you come across a character that reminds you of that instance, you incorporate it.

I think imagination can be an incredibly powerful tool and it can help you get more confidence.

We use technology in service of the art, as a storytelling tool - and if we want to do something that's never been done we have to invent the technology. 'ParaNorman' represents the realization of stop-motion's potential.

Roblox gives builders the tools and freedom to put their imaginations into action.

I think it is really important to not only take advantage of these tools that you have at your disposal but also to really take the time to develop ideas within yourself and think about what you want to animate, and then you can use these tools to create what you want to create.

The theater, for me, has always been a place where I'm free to be more creative, a place to sharpen my tools.

If you're going to create a character, the tools you use to make that character 'real' are the lives you see around you. The people you listen to on the street. The emotions you see on faces and bodies while you're sitting... in a Starbucks, watching the world go by.

Kids have tools to do what I'm doing.

The big artist keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools.

You've got to push yourself harder. You've got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You've got to take the tools you have and probe deeper.

My tools, my medium, include pictures and live actors.

If you write your own tools, you can sort of see new things, design new things.

One of the things 'Minecraft' is most noted for is the freedom it gives the players to build and experiment with the tools. You start off with simple objects; axes, torches, helmets and swords. With a little time and experimentation, you move to switches, complex machines, mine carts, glass.

You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.

I just like being all over the place and writing whatever comes to mind. Having the tools? It's such a gift.

Everyone who knew me as a child, they say they're not surprised that I became a writer because I wrote all the time. I don't remember writing, because I wouldn't have had the tools, but I think what they are saying is that I would pretend I was a writer.

Your primary tools, as an actor, are observation and imagination. You can pretty much get everything you need from that, and you do. It brings back that element of pretend.

The moment of creative impulse is what an artist gives you. You look at a Pollock, and it can't give you the tools to do a painting like that yourself, but in doing the work, Pollock shares with you the moment of creative impulse that drove him to do that work.

As a fiction writer, my favorite tools are my imagination and the peculiar opportunities offered by different points of view.

As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.

I think the two main tools actors have are the imagination of what other people have gone through, to connect with and through research, and there's one's own experience.