Quotes About Imagination

Figuring out what to wear is much easier if you first think about what effect you want to create.

What one seems to want in art, in experiencing it, is the same thing that is necessary for its creation, a self-forgetful, perfectly useless concentration.

Without dreams we would be cows in a field, and I don't want to live like that. I live my life or I end my life with this project.

(Jace) "Is there anything special you want to see? Paris? Budapest? The Leaning Tower of Pisa?" Only if it falls on Sebastian's head, she thought.

All I know is that the first step is to create a vision, because when you see the vision – the beautiful vision – that creates the want power.

Imagine, as realistically as possible, the place where you want to be in the near future, the state you wish to reach and the Universe will help you and guide you

It's all the unwordable things one wants to write about, just as it's all the unformable things one wants to paint - essence.

See fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need. And I just retired from the fantasy part.

A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

I like to paint something that leads me on and on into the unknown, something that I want to see away on beyond.

The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought: "That's what I want to do."

It's like anything in life, visualizing the old man you're going to become: As long as you have a clear picture of that - the life you want to lead - eventually you'll probably get there.

Don't use your conscious past. Use your creative imagination to create a past that belongs to your character. I don't want you to be stuck with your own life. It's too little.

If all your life means to you is water running over rocks, then photograph it, but I want to create something that would not have existed without me.

When I'm in New York, I just want to walk down the street and feel this thing, like I'm in a movie.

As a kid, when I got to the edge of a cliff I wanted to jump off. I didn't want to kill myself. I wanted to fly.

When you're so drawn to art, to making pictures and looking at art, it's really all you want to think about.

You have to move beyond that vision of the way your life has always looked and begin to picture your life as you want it to look.

I don't really look for challenges as much as I like adventures. Other than that I'm just trying to find stories I want to tell.

The Old West is not a certain place in a certain time, it's a state of mind. It's whatever you want it to be.

If there is a book you want to read but isn't written yet,write it.

One wants to see the artifice of the thing as well as the subject.

To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be.

I have invented nothing. I have simply documented a magical alchemy that I want to share.