Quotes About Imagination

The first rule of world-building is available physics, which basically means that if you want it to feel real, it has to follow the same rules as this world, from gravity to how human behaviour works. If you have a fantasy element that doesn't obey the laws of physics, make sure that it has a fantasy explanation.

I've paid for more pianos in hotel lobbies than you can imagine.

Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.

I discovered it was easier to carry around a pen than a piano.

When I was a little girl my parents always told me do everything you want in an artistic way. If you want to draw, make a drawing. Just do it. And if you want to play piano, play piano. It was a very free childhood where everything was possible.

When you see the best of the best - when you see a Matisse or a Picasso - what interests you is the creativity and harmony.

'Le Reve' may be one of the three best pictures Pablo Picasso ever painted.

My first influence obviously was Picasso.

When I was 12, I wrote a list of things to do before I died. 'Own a Picasso' was one of those things.

Most artists never get a chance to be Picasso, but that doesn't mean you would stop painting.

Our artistic heroes tend to be those self-exercisers, like Picasso, and Nabokov, and Wallace Stevens, who rather defiantly kept playing past dark.

Pablo Picasso first entered my consciousness when I was a boy of about eight years old.

Each time that you're playing a character, it's hard to pick a favorite.

I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say.

When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens.

I never really wanted to be a writer. I know it sounds strange, but I honestly believe that I didn't pick the story; the story has picked me. I've written absolutely no fiction before 'The Immortals of Meluha.' Not even a short story in school - absolutely nothing.

I used to take circus lessons. I dreamt of being picked up in the street because they saw me doing something circus-like.

I don't believe in storks. I know they don't deliver babies; they deliver pickles.

When I write, I try not to cast in my head, because then I'm writing to a major movie star, and it picks up those ticks, and that's not what I want to do.

It's amazing what the acoustic guitar can bring to the picture.

Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it.

It seemed to me that this might be a great pageant, which would give a chance for a very interesting picture.

The more ways you can tell a story and paint a picture, the better it is.

Understand where it is you want to go. Then picture yourself there. If you can picture yourself there, then you can be there. Bottom line.