Quotes About Imagination

El verdadero poeta no se encuentra nunca "inspirado": está precisamente por encima de ese más y de ese menos, iguales a sus ojos, que son la técnica y la inspiración; iguales porque domina ambas a la perfección. El verdadero inspirado nunca está inspirado: lo está siempre; no busca la inspiración ni se irrita contra técnica alguna.»

I don't know why, but whenever I'd look at Amber, all determined and long-legged, I'd imagine her climbing out of a car wreck while the slow, sluggish passengers burned inside.

There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.

By the time I was 12, I had decided to be an artist.

Most writers, by the time they're 60, must have revisited their childhood a dozen times.

By the time I was a teenager I'd decided what my son's name would be - River.

Every time I pass a cafe, I imagine it being stormed by men with Kalashnikovs.

I went to Cal Arts. I went to art school.

California is always in my mind.

'Somebody's Calling Me' was written in my sleep, and the original was just the piano and the beat and the singing.

I think God calls and encourages us to dream big, but sometimes we put God in a box in a very small way, when God wants us to look outside the box.

Many of my fans often tell me that they listen to my songs to get through things. And therefore, obviously, I hope that they can picture being in a place where things are better... I hope my songs can bring people to a calm place.

I always wanted to be a children's author, and I have a really big library of children's books. All the ones from when I was little, they are just so beautiful. I read kids' books, and they calm me down.

In front of the camera I look and I see visually what I've created.

My friends love this idea of me as half man, half camera.

My dad put me in a theater group camp at Santa Monica Playhouse when I was, like, six, and then I started to realize I really liked it when I was 11 or 12; it was nice to just escape.

I mean, you can't help but imagine it a little bit... like, 'What would I do with a Black Canary show?' It'd be exciting, I know that.

I always saw candy as art.

Had I not had children of my own, I would have never written books for children, nor would I have been capable of doing so.

Children are often better actors than adults because they have a greater capacity for believing in a situation.

Films should have the capacity to bring you into another world.

Captain America and the Avengers were my favorite characters as a kid.

I don't know why I've always been so captivated by architecture.

What I found so captivating about the idea of being a writer was having the ability to write down all these things I made up in my head so other people could see them.