Quotes About Imagination

What I didn't realize when I was in school and what I suspect a lot of young writers today don't get either is that you have to create the world that you want to exist in as an artist.

There's something political about creating a world that you want to exist.

So far, designing is the most exciting thing. Ive done I have a vision of what I want the clothes to look like in my mind and its fun to see it come alive on paper.

Lifes light. Life is light. You can make light do anything you want to. Photography means 'light writing'.

People write music, and the music is out there for people to interpret it how they want to.

The fact that it's science fiction gives you the license to do anything you want to do.

One thing I really want to explore is writing.

I can't play any instrument for the life of me, but I know what I want to hear.

It's just so much fun to make up characters, situations, and everything else about a story. I have so much freedom and flexibility to do whatever I want.

Whoever wants to tell a variety of stories ought to have a variety of beginnings.

A dream...I was trying to explain to St. Peter, and was doing it in the German tongue, because I didn't want to be too explicit.

It's our dreams that keep us going, that seperate us from the beasts. I wouldn't even want to live if I thought it was all just eating and sleeping and taking off my clothes.

When I was 7 years old, my father asked me a simple question. He said, 'do you want to see someone fly?' What 7 year old boy is gonna say no to that?

I start with the subject matter I want to write about. Then I make a musical base for that and create an atmosphere with the music. Once I've done that, the lyrics come last.

I don't think I'm delusional, but I'm definitely a dreamer; I definitely want to see the best in things and I believe in what I do.

I love the idea of renaissance. If my career is like painting a canvas, I want to have as many different colors in there as I can.

People want Art. And they are given it. But the less Art there is in painting the more painting there is.

People aren't interested in blueprints; they want to sense the painter's involvement and pleasure in the subject. . . . Paint a sense of place.

I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about and offer up. It would be odd not to have ideas about something.

All the monsters in your mind just want to be nice. They want to be kind. They want to play nice. They want to be softer than the storms around. You feel them through the windows and the doors.

I wouldn't be myself if I weren't always trying to be someone else. I only have so much time on this earth and I want to be as many people as possible.

Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I cant even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.

I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind.

When I'm trying to imagine something, I have a few elements, a few ideas, maybe a certain actor or actress I want to create a certain type of character for, or maybe a certain place.