Quotes About Imagination

I dig in the sand, and I play with pretty pictures, so I never really left kindergarten.

I am just trying to find a way to make pictures.

I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter. To me, the making of the pictures is the most important thing.

My thought has been shaped by books; my desires by pictures.

I couldn't take pictures of green rolling hills.

I look at my pictures, and I think, 'Well, how did I do that?'

I've been painting and drawing and taking pictures as long as I've been writing music - and I've actually been drawing longer than I've been writing music.

I went around the corner to motion pictures.

Some people take pictures; I write songs.

I don't think in words; I think in pictures, in images.

I've been taking art lessons since I was little, and I've always drawn. I think in pictures.

Literature is the stringing together of pictures in words.

I think with pictures; I'm a very lousy writer. If I write without pictures, I become this pathetic chick sitting somewhere trying to be interesting.

I love that vision-board thing where you cut out pictures that resonate with you so they'll manifest. I've done that since I was three; I cut out pictures of ladies from the JCPenney catalog.

'The Indian Runner' was easy. It had been incubating in me for eight years, and by the time I sat down to write the thing, I had all the pictures in my head.

I certainly knew from an early age... how to tell stories; how to create pictures in other people's heads.

I try to make pictures I would want to see.

Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind.

My mind sort of works like a search engine. You ask me something, and I start seeing pictures.

When I started working in fashion, I didn't have money to buy photographs, so I'd Xerox pictures from magazines and put them in notebooks. When I'd start a collection, I'd sit with my old notebooks and look through them for inspiration.

I want to make books. I want to take pictures and then write all over the pictures. And then I don't have to say a complete story, because I have the picture, and I have just a word.

When you are little, you will draw pictures for no reason.

My mind works like Google for images. You put in a key word; it brings up pictures.

When people ask what 'American Pie' is about, they're missing the point. The song isn't about the lines themselves - it's about what is between the lines. The song is about what isn't there.