Quotes About Imagination

I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.

The first book I ever bought for myself was 'One Fish Two Fish' by Dr. Seuss. My favourite page shows two children carrying an enormous glass jar up some stairs in the dark. In the jar is a tusked beflippered creature floating in brine.

Jazz is an interesting music. It's one of the few forms of music where everyone that's performing the music has a creative stake in the music. In jazz, everyone's improvising, and everyone's creating at the same time.

Fantasy enabled me to break the shackles and create a whole new level of 'the world is in danger' stakes.

I have a lot of sketches and ideas, but when you don't use them, they get stale.

You know, I can't imagine 9 to 5 writing. That takes some stamina.

I hope for quick, fluent copy and memorable pictures. The words would not 'describe' the pictures; the pictures would not 'illustrate' the words. Together, they would carry a stamp and tell a story.

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

Why I talk so seriously about art is that art is the only thing that helps people stay alive, and it is the only thing that has allowed people to create joy in this insane, suppressive universe. And art is the only thing that they can't get rid of. They've tried, but ultimately they can't stamp it out.

I have memories of the time when I was younger and when I believed in Santa Claus, which was the best part of Christmas. Back then, I wrote to Santa every year, hoping that my mom would post the letter with a stamp to the North Pole!

When you're a kid that's spent all your pocket money buying Spider-Man comics, and then as an adult, you're in the Marvel Universe, and you get to meet Stan Lee - it's wonderful.

A lot of people dub our work as New Age. But for some reason, they don't dub Stan Lee's work that way.

When the show starts, I am in my SpongeBob stance, and I walk like SpongeBob, and the first step that I take, I am SpongeBob.

Encourage children to write their own stories, and then don't rain on their parade. Don't say, 'That's not true.' Applaud flights of fantasy. Help with spelling and grammar, but stand up and cheer the use of imagination.

I had the standard movie geek childhood, because for as long as I can remember, all I wanted to do was make movies.

I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.

With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.

I say that I played a doorstop in Dune because I remember standing around a lot. I was down there for months.

But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.

I knew nothing of the real life of a musician, but I seemed to see myself standing in front of great crowds of people, playing my accordion.

You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.

I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.

I have a really good idea for a novel and would like to just kind of try my hand at fiction. I'm starting to kind of get a really good body of work going from a literary standpoint. As long as the audience is there, man, I'll keep cranking them out.

Working at the ad agency showed me just how possible things were from a production standpoint.