Quotes About Imagination

I wanted to be in the FBI. I also wanted to be a pie salesman.

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

No one can ever create art, even on a piece of paper, as they have envisioned it in their mind.

To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.

I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece.

I think of a piece, and then people who are competent fabricate it. But lately I've started finger painting, which probably should be a joke but isn't!

Mr. Fantasy was the only song that was scribbling on a piece of paper.

I shudder at the image they would piece together.

A piece of fabric can get me going.

If you look at any creative person's work, you can see bits and pieces of their influences. That's what an artist does.

Now I've got a fairly good grasp of the 18th century on what was common and what people thought. But I don't write in order. I write bits and pieces and sort of glue them.

Before I was a cosplayer, I was a fan artist. I would draw my favorite characters and sell the pieces at art auctions. But once I discovered cosplay, it was like, 'I don't have to draw my favorite characters, I can become my favorite characters.'

I love looking at pieces of art through the eyes of a child.

I have done some short pieces that are not horror.

There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books.

I find it an easy way into writing pieces is to think what the character's voice is like, and start from there.

There are bits and pieces of me probably in every one of my 35 or so books.

In some ways, you kind of take a personality and drop it on the ground, and it breaks into a bunch of little pieces, and you kind of water those pieces, and it grows into characters. So they're all me in a way.

I love sci-fi and period pieces - it's fantasy. I can let myself dream a little bit. But also, I just really love science. I love knowing about how the world works.

I've written songs on everything. Menus. Napkins. Little pieces of paper.

You have to take the time to live in a place to collect all the pieces, develop a vision. You can't just go to Home Depot and buy everything.

Whenever anything bubbles up, I have to put it down. I have bits and pieces all over my hard drive.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

Drawings, paintings, and sculptures. That's the three pillars of art academia.