Quotes About Imagination

I've always been an actor. That's my job — I can be anything you want me to be.

You have a pre-conceived notion of what you want the scene to be, but once you get there, that goes out the window and it turns out to be a way that you never imagined.

You have to first experience what you want to express

People respond differently to the same image and put on what they want or hope or feel onto that image.

I could see how people get addicted to animation, and I understand why it's so great for comedy. You can do whatever you want and it just happens.

Increasingly I think of poetry as a theatre of voices, not as coming from a single "I" or from any one position. I want to imagine voices different from my own.

Each year, more people want to become artists.

I think fiction writers write what they do because no one else has written it and they want to read it.

What made me want to play guitar was that painting of Wings in concert in the gatefold of Wings Over America. It looked so exciting... I wanted to be part of it.

Writing the record for me - every record is almost a surprise. When people ask me, what are the themes you want to grapple with on this one? I have no idea until the record's finished.

I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how to. I don't want to limit myself.

If I'm creating something for myself, then I want to have fun.

I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking I really want to write a novel.

I learned a lot about 3D animation from and with my dear friend Michael Hemschoot of Workerstudio. Taught me that I want to play more with animation and image manipulation. Fun stuff!

Sometimes if there's a book you really want to read, you have to write it yourself.

Usually one or two things happen: Either you have an idea straightaway - the sort of sound that you want or the instrumentation or one particular sound that you want to feature - or you don't.

That's what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there.

I love the idea of birds having human qualities...I think all humans want to be birds so we can fly.

How few are our real wants! and how easy is it to satisfy them! Our imaginary ones are boundless and insatiable.

You can make Jesus however you want. I think it's beautiful that there is no specific type, you can imagine whatever you want.

How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.

I don't *ever* write about real people. Art is supposed to be better than that. If you want a slice of life, look out the window.

I always have a backlog of like seven movies that I want to make.

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.