Quotes About Imagination

The greatness of being an artist is the kind of ridiculous guffaw you can have at one's own misery. 'That was miserable! Now how can I write about it?'

There was never a time when I wasn't making guitars out of cardboard or dressing up like the Misfits.

Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

If you have a good inner life, you don't get lonely. I've got a good imagination. I don't miss romance.

I want to make movies that I want to see, and what I miss and I'm not seeing.

I love writing fiction and can do it anywhere - I once even missed a flight because I was so engrossed.

What entrepreneurs and artists have in common is that they give the world something it didn't know it was missing.

So much of 'Jaws' was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.

It's inherently a part of my childhood and my development as a person and an artist, this childlike feeling knowing that something is missing but not quite knowing how to fix it. I'm always drawing on it.

I'm always consciously trying to make what I feel is missing.

What we want from art is whatever is missing from the lives we are already living and making. Something is always missing, and so art-making is endless.

I study orbital dynamics as a hobby. My idea of a good time is sitting down and drawing on that knowledge to imagine a space mission from beginning to end, getting as many details right as I can.

He can't imagine the result of the mission because he never saw it.

My personal mission has always been to empower people to be creative. But the Holy Grail of a tinkerer is to make something that makes something.

Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.

Growing up in Mississippi, the first song that I ever remember hearing, that captivated my mind and transported me from my bedroom out to the West, is a song called 'Don't Take Your Guns to Town' by Johnny Cash. That's when I was 5-years-old. And I played that song over and over again. I pantomimed it in school for show-and-tell.

My greatest mistake is that my dreams were too small.

I never know what I'm going to write next, and when I think I do I usually turn out to be mistaken.

Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.

So many great ideas come out of a misunderstanding.

I don't think words always lead to meaning, but the things you can create with them are still pretty amazing. I've been really into Joni Mitchell, for example, but I've also been into some studio stuff, like Bjork.

Ever since I was a little girl, I loved to make things. I always made dresses for my Barbie dolls. When I was 13, I designed my Bat Mitzvah dress.

I try to mix the characters up and not be second guessed by the audience.

I loved playing with the mix of fantastical inventions and real ones. I hope kids will start logbooks to record their own creations.