Quotes About Imagination

Artists are always good for conversation, so long as you want to talk about their art.

Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art.

What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.

I can't just have one painting - I need to cover the wall in paintings. It's the same with my music. I want to mix everything together to create more.

Sometimes you have to create the thing you want to be part of.

Oh, the things we invent when we are scared and want to be rescued.

So I created a tool for you to do just that. With the Mii Fighter creator you can have any character you want join the battle.

There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who want to know the facts, and those who want to make up a nice story to feel better. I wish I was the kind who made up stories.

Once an interesting idea or theme occurs to me then I would want to write a poem about it. The rest, frankly, is not difficult.

What a writer wants to do is not what he does.

A friend of mine said Winn-Dixie is the way that people want the world to be and Tiger Rising is the way that it is.

People think a big camera and big lighting will make art, and I want to break that rule. If you have a great concept, it can be art.

I always have a vision when I go in, I always know what I want to do.

I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do.

I am a blank slate - therefore I can create anything I want.

The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.

Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself! (from Tooth and Claw in Season 2)

The point of fashion is that you take the picture you want. And fashion is the only photography that allows fantasy, and I'm a fantasist.

In reality, we are still children. We want to find a playmate for our thoughts and feelings.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

What comes next? Super Mario 128? Actually, that's what I want to do.

Unfortunately, in many cases, people who write science fiction violate the laws of nature, not because they want to make a point, but because they don't know what the laws of nature are.

I think one wants lots of different lives.

I like a lot of talk in a book and I don't like to have nobody tell me what the guy that's talking looks like. I want to figure out what he looks like from the way he talks.