Quotes About Imagination

We can create any sort of flavor on a printed image that we set our minds to.

I never know, when I start writing a story, what's going to happen, or how it will all get sorted out.

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.

Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.

A great melodic line is like a person's soul, and coming up with an original melody, it can be like you are illustrating the soul.

This is the real magic of fantasy fiction: it can feed souls and change lives.

I wouldn't want everybody to be an art or literature major, but the world would be poorer - figuratively, anyway - if we were all coding software or running companies. We also want musicians to awaken our souls, writers to lead us into fictional lands, and philosophers to help us exercise our minds and engage the world.

In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.

The cinema is really built for the big screen and big sound, so that a person can go into another world and have an experience.

With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound.

What I love about the creative process, and this may sound naive, but it is this idea that one day there is no idea, and no solution, but the next day there is an idea. I find that incredibly exciting and conceptually actually remarkable.

When I was a little boy, there was no sound in the movies.

For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always sound first and then the line afterwards.

I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music.

For me, even if I'm singing to a very large audience, like in 'The Sound of Music Live' or in the 'She Loves Me' broadcast, I try to imagine that I am just singing to each individual. It doesn't change my energy other than being perhaps a bit more nervous. I try to sing to each person and right into their individual heart.

The coolest thing for me to do was listen to Pearl Jam's 'Ten,' Nirvana's 'Nevermind,' or Soundgarden and play along to it and think about how awesome it would be to be in one of those bands and be up on stage. When I'd close my eyes at 13 and dream of being in Pearl Jam or one of those bands, it was exactly like how it is now with the band I'm in.

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

Deciding to write a novel about something - as opposed to finding you are writing a novel around something - sounds to me like a good evocation of writer's block.

Asking someone to describe what something sounds like is like telling a blind person to guess what I look like.

As a composer, I know that all sorts of sounds I hear are making their way into my brain and soul and later sneak into my music.