Quotes About Imagination

Richard Avedon taught me that if you go into a photo session and come out with what you had hoped for, it's a failure. You need to be surprised if you want it to be magical.

I wake up thinking: What am I reading? What will I read next? I'm terrified that I'll run out, that I will read through all I want to, and be forced to learn wildflowers at last, to keep awake.

The information I most want is in books not yet written by people not yet born.

I'm fortunate to know a lot of incredibly talented people, and they all want to be a penguin.

I started drawing in first grade. Because the kid next to me was drawing, and I remember thinking: I want to be able to do that!

People go to movies or listen to music because they want to be inspired.

We tell the stories that we want to tell.

In my everyday life, I can be as square as I want. But when it comes to movies and telling stories, I can't. I've got to be radical, and on some level, that's what I like to do.

I don't do a comic book thinking there is a movie. I just want it to be as good a comic book as it can be.

You don't really think The Terminator exists, but you want him to exist.

I want you, as a reader, to experience what I experience, to let that other world, that imaginary world that I have created, tell you things about the real world.

So, what is creative freedom? We can make what we want, how we want. The only constraint is: not for any budget.

I think you have to write what you want to watch.

I felt like I had proof that not all days are the same length, not all time has the same weight. Proof that there are worlds and worlds and worlds on top of worlds, if you want them to be there.

You have to be driven by the stories that you want to tell. You can't simply be responding, or there won't be any real heart to those stories anymore.

Is this the life you really want? Or is it just the fantasy of it?

When we dwell on the past, we tend to want to live there. When we dream of the future, we want to go there. Our dreams are where God paints a picture of a life waiting to be created.

Who wants a dream that's near-fetched?

Novelists want to flood, poets want to distill.

I think that the inventors can do anything they want, and nobody can say anything otherwise.

I remember as a kid watching TV and seeing Mel Blanc doing his voices and Paul Winchell doing his ventriloquism and thinking, 'Those guys are having a good time. I want to do that.'

Everyone has a fantasy of what they want their band to sound like. However, because I knew nothing about making music, I was unable to describe what I wanted properly.

I'm alienated from this world because its weird and I don't want to be a part of it. I want to be part of the people that are more imaginative and crazy.

Content to me is very important, but I like it when [the photograph] is also enigmatic. If you don't know what it is you begin to speculate, and that is what I want.