Quotes About Imagination

In 'Changeling,' I tried to show something you'd never see nowadays - a kid sitting and looking at the radio. Just sitting in front of the radio and listening. Your mind does the rest.

My ideas tend to arise out of nowhere when I'm not intentionally trying to think of something.

Ideas sometimes come from nowhere, and sometimes they take lots of thinking.

My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all.

I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere.

My best moments are when I write songs out of nowhere.

I can't really worry about nuclear war any more than I can worry about the aliens coming.

'The Nightmare Before Christmas' is my number one biggest influence artistically in every way.

I was always extremely creative. I was very artistic and never strong with numbers or science. I wanted to be an artist or a fashion designer. I wanted to be something that allowed for a lot of imagination.

Count the dreams of your mind; if the numbers of the dreams exceeds the number of achievements, you are young.

I wonder if the nursery and the chamber of horrors are as far apart as people think?

When I was going into inventing, it wasn't a dream the way someone goes into nursing or dancing. Because there's a path with that. It's very different when you say, 'I have an idea and it doesn't exist.' It's a very different path.

My artistic spirit is not nurtured by blogospheres.

I'm a huge Disney nut. I have been since I was a little kid.

Art is about going a little nuts... Kids do art for fun. It's playing.

There's something about seeing this little inanimate object coming to life that's just very exciting. That's why with 'Nightmare' I held out for so long to do it.

The dream of the theater for for me is that it's a room full of adults and kids. I want kids and grownups to be totally focused on the same object.

An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.

I love bringing the inanimate object to life.

I don't really have a metaphor for how I write, but it kinda feels like chipping away at a big dark object that I can't really see.

I always liked the challenge of that, how to take an inanimate object and build something around it that's scary.

I don't see myself as an object, I see myself more as a fantasy to men.

Art is the objectification of feeling.

You can look up, you can see the stars, the moon and the sun, and you wonder: How does it all work? I didn't have the answers, but I was thinking about all this floating amongst the stars. That is my objective.