Quotes About Imagination

I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.

When I wrote my book about Amsterdam, the main objective was to talk about the city's creativity rather than just its design.

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me, they are mental constructs in my own brain.

The Shakespeare that Shakespeare became is the name that's attached to these astonishing objects that he left behind.

I was the kid who was sat in his room, trying to move objects across the room with my eyes or my mind.

Fashion blogs are great, but I also take inspiration from movies, nature, everyday objects.

A dream is better than obligation.

Every writer loves the idea of being able to go in and fix a problem and then leave without obligation. It's fun!

A writer's obligation is to invent: to go beyond what did happen and to look at what could have happened but didn't. Fiction writers are born liars.

Stories are not explanations of the world we live in. Science does that, and math does that. Our obligation as fiction writers is to enhance the mysteries.

I just never in my life imagined not graduating college, so I feel like it's kind of my obligation to my parents, almost, to give them a degree in return for everything they've given me.

The basic idea of a hackathon is to erase all routine obligations for the day so that employees can clear a mental space for creativity.

One thing I like about historical fiction is that I'm not constantly focusing on me, or people like me; you're obliged to concentrate on lives that are completely other than your own.

It's quite an obscure notion for a kid, no? To want to be a curator. But even then, I knew that I would do this.

I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.

I was a very observant child. Almost anything could become a song to me.

When you're drawing from observation and experience, whether you intend to or not, you'll create a more relatable cartoon.

Imagination is really dependent on memory and observation, these things that we think of as part of nonfiction writing, actually.

As an actor, you create a character from your understanding of what you have heard and your observations. Eventually, every film is an extension of the images that I have seen or what I have heard or read somewhere.

One of the great joys of a creative life is that your observations and loose moments aren't lost forever; they live in your work.

I always observe the people who pass by when I ride an escalator. I'll never see most of them again, so I imagine a lot of things about their lives... about the day ahead of them.

With a fantasy world, it's like, this is my world. I literally made it. So if I tell you something, you do have to sit back and observe more. You need to sit back and listen more to understand what is going on or what's happening in the world. And I think there's a lot of power in that.