Quotes About Imagination

Blank paper has always inspired me.

You don't know what inspires you. You like to think you know what inspires you, but in the final analysis I don't think you really do. It's great to look at a blank sheet of paper, you know, and walk up to an instrument and not know what's gonna happen. It's the most challenging thing I do.

My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.

When I was a kid, I was always drawing things. I'd get butcher paper or grocery bags and draw on them.

I like to make collages - paper collages.

As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a design.

Books arrive in my head all at once, and then it becomes an 18-month process of getting it all down on paper.

I can see a scene in my head, and when I try to get it down in words on paper, the words are clunky; the scene is not coming across right. So frustrating. And there are days where it keeps flowing. Open the floodgates, and there it is. Pages and pages coming. Where the hell does this all come from? I don't know.

I'm really interested in making a mark on a paper and letting that be cursive shorthand for an idea - that's the origin of cartooning.

It's just nice to see something from paper come to life on the screen.

I learned how to draw from being bored in school. I would doodle on the margins of my paper.

But with writing, all you need is a pad of paper.

Once they're on paper, they're gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes.

I couldn't imagine having to write a paper and have to think about what song I am going to sing.

I truly enjoy directing. I enjoy looking at the words on the paper and visualizing how to make them come to life.

I have files, I have computer files and, you know, files on paper. But most of it is really in my head. So God help me if anything ever happens to my head!

I've only wanted paper and beautiful colors. It was my dream, and it still is my dream. And books. They're all I need, and the rest I can do without.

'Ghost City' began as a idea. I felt that I hadn't read or heard a great deal about the sort of life that I thought I had, and I just thought that it would be interesting to sit down and see if I could put it down onto paper.

I was delivering papers when I was, like, 10 or 11, and I'd always daydream about being an artist as a full-time thing.

My high-school papers, my college-application essays, read like Norman Mailer packed in a crunchy-peanut-butter sandwich.

I find that 'Taare Zameen Par' is one of the most beautiful movies ever made about the inner world of a child.

When I am writing anything in general, I just want to tell the story that exists in my head; I don't try to write a parable or make a point.

I would climb on roofs and jump off using my parents' bed sheet, hoping it would open like a parachute. I was always getting hurt, breaking a leg, you know, bruising, cracking my head open.

As a kid, I saw those ticker-tape parades in the movies, and I was really chuffed to be in one.