Quotes About Imagination

I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.

I am my own audience. I always picture me and my mates and think, 'What would we enjoy listening to?'

Everyone is of course free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is another.

I wouldn't use the same color in a picture in more than one place.

My dream concept is that I have a camera and I am trying to photograph what is essentially invisible. And every once in a while I get a glimpse of her and I grab that picture.

Once I make a picture, I never look at it again.

When I write, my brain moves faster than my hands so I'm always trying to picture things.

I have likened writing a novel to going on a journey, with some notion of the destination I will arrive at, but not the whole picture - which emerges gradually as a series of revelations, as the journey goes along.

Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?

The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

I have a picture of an ideal consciousness.

Half of me is very excited and the other half is 'Haven't we seen this stuff before?' But I'm very impressed. I almost couldn't picture it when it was being put together. I couldn't picture it being in my hand, what it would look like.

Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.

When I'm singing a song, I picture somebody in particular. A lot of it is to a guy.

As a boy, I devoured comics but never saw what we now describe as a picture book.

As adults, we've seen so much before that we often turn the pages of a picture book without really looking. Young children tend to look more carefully.

Writing for children is my... that's my medium, you know, and the medium is the picture book, which is a very particular kind of book. I try to give children what I would give anybody, you know. I become interested in something. I find something fascinating. It has to fascinate me, and then I want to give it to them.

The great thing about making picture books is that you can make absolutely anything you want happen. It's a bit like making a film, but you don't need lots of money for actors and costumes - you just need pens, paper, and your imagination.

I'll always write picture books - it's just what I do. I'd even do it if I wasn't being paid.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: writing picture books is an art - the art of word choice.

I didn't have picture books - there weren't many around when I was a child.

Many adults that I have met in my time believed that picture books are 'babyish'. I hope I have changed minds on this, as I set out to do.

One of my main decisions when accepting the job of Children's Laureate was that I must continue working on picture books. If I don't write and illustrate for some time, then I begin to question who I am.

A dream collage is pictures of your goals. It is like your future photo album.