Quotes About Imagination

I sort of try to read the books when they come out impartially and not make up my mind, but the fact is when I was reading the sixth, 'Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince', there were bits in there where I was going, 'God, I would love to do that because it's so good'.

That's what made me fall in love with music in the first place was the idea of being able to take listeners on a journey across forty or sixty minutes.

I write everything I do. On the average, it takes you about sixty months from the first molecule of an idea to it being in front of an audience. I'm actually somebody that creates their own stuff.

It's not the size of the dreamer, it's the size of the dream.

Whatever story you want to tell, tell it at the right size.

There was a lot more music than the size of the place would indicate.

The more ships have grown in size and consequence, the more their place in our imagination has shrunk.

So many of my characters have really crazy physicalities, so it's really fun to be able to say, like, 'I'm an elf who's the size of a dollar bill!'

I kind of do the drawing with the painting in mind, but it's very hard to guess at a size or a color and all the colors around it and what it will really look like.

Once, America's size in the imagination was limitless. After Europeans settled and changed it, working from the coasts inland, its size in the imagination shrank.

The sizes and shapes of the panels have never been important to my stories. It has always been the words and images that drew me in, kind of like watching a movie.

I think a part of me romantically thinks it would be amazing to learn to dance or ice skate, but in reality, I don't think it would be beneficial to my career.

I've made a bit of a career taking daunting projects out of Lego. I've done things like a dinosaur skeleton and stuff like that.

When I first began to have the initial idea for 'Heartsease,' I just wrote a skeleton story; that is, I started her off as this young, bright 16-year-old and then added the events that occurred and where she and other characters fitted in, even writing 3 different endings, as I was not sure where Mary's story would lead to.

I was fascinated by puppets as a kid and one I had when I was eight or nine, a skeleton, is now hanging in my office.

I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.

I love a ghost story. I think they affect me more than other people that are much more skeptical than I am. I think that it's good that I do buy into them to some degree.

Get into your own creativity. Sketch and paint with different mediums and follow your heart.

When I'm writing, I'm creating the story and its character with words. I'm thinking about what the pictures will be like, but I never begin to sketch. The pictures are all in my head.

I start with an idea in my head. I sketch it out quickly as a line drawing, using pencil. It never comes out quite right - usually a bit better than my mental picture.

I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.

Graphic novels are such a visually creative world - it's really interesting what they can do in one sketch. Now I'm hooked.

I could speak three languages when I was six, and when I went to school, I only liked to read and sketch. At five, I could write and everything.

Sketch comes from everyday life. You can see someone on the street, and it can turn into a five-minute sketch.