Quotes About Imagination

For me, when I was growing up, everybody I knew was a 'Star Wars' kid.

I place 'Star Wars' on such a pedestal, like many of my peers do, given that we all grew up with these stories.

When I watch my sons play, I think, God, acting's the most natural thing in the world. They take the 'Star Wars' characters and say, 'Let's pretend that I'm Hans and you're Luke and that we're on this planet,' etc.

When I was 9, I saw 'Star Wars,' and it set me on a path to where I am today.

I was pretty lucky to have grown up during the 'Star Wars,' 'Indiana Jones' and 'E.T.' years.

Although I do love popcorn movies - I'll totally be there to see 'Star Wars' - it's rare to see something in a movie theater that goes beyond our expectations.

I was a shy kid growing up, and I liked the idea of playing under this alter ego: like, I could be Ziggy Stardust, but I also knew I could never be Ziggy Stardust.

There's something in me that loves to inspire people: when I'm playing music, I imagine all this sparkly stardust going through everyone. I want to make people come alive.

Costumes are fun. Dress up like a pilot some night and watch as people stare!

I don't stare at a sheet of paper and try to think of a good word to use. I try to see where the story should go.

I sit in my little office and I feel like I've got all my readers staring at me.

The first book I really loved was 'Little Women' - I'd have given anything for Beth to have been allowed to live; I remember crying very much over her death, trying to make the words change just by staring at them. I loved 'Anne of Green Gables,' too; 'What Katy Did;' and 'Peter Pan.'

Indolence, of course, is an absolutely crucial part of the creative process: you do not find poets sitting in rows in cavernous word factories, staring at screens. They are rather to be found lolling on the sofa or strolling through the groves, nursing their melancholic temperaments and losing themselves in extended reveries.

I was staring at a wall of photos and thought, 'What would that sound like if it was music?' And I guess that was the kicker. That's what got me going.

Oftentimes, when I'm trying to get inspired, I'll find myself just staring at the wall and let the fans inspire me to get creative.

If you listen to one of my albums, you can tell I do a lot of different things. In the case of 'Vincent', I thought of his picture 'Starry Night.' It was a beautiful road-map for a song. I used a lot of imagery from that painting.

The natural does not have to be a specific representation. I am now working on a thing which is a reconstruction of a starry sky, yet I make it, nevertheless, without a given in nature.

The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter.

If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.

I can't imagine anything more beautiful on this planet than looking up at the stars and seeing a kind of artificial star moving through the night sky.

His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.

I always have to dream up there against the stars. If I don't dream I will make it, I won't even get close.

And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars.

I love thinking of movie stars who could play the characters in the books I write.