Quotes About Imagination

All writers, musicians, artists, choreographers/dancers, etc., work with the stuff of their experiences. It's the translation of it, the conversion of it, the shaping of it that makes for the drama.

I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.

It is already a great thing if the main ideas and general outline of a work come without any racking of brains, as the result of that supernatural and inexplicable force we call inspiration.

I've always wanted to work for Walt Disney. That's what I thought I was going to do when I grew up.

The Biblical story of the creation is an excellent parable of movement. The work of art, too, is above all a process of creation, it is never experienced as a mere product.

To accomplish artistic work, of any individual worth, nature must be seen through the medium of the artist's intellectual emotions.

I would not leave anything to a man of action as he would be tempted to give up work; on the other hand, I would like to help dreamers as they find it difficult to get on in life.

In a sense, as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.

I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.

The world is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.

What you try to become is a bringer of magic, for magic and the truth are closely allied and movies are sheer magic ... when they work, it's, well, it's glorious.

The work of art... is an instrument for tilling the human psyche, that it may continue to yield a harvest of vital beauty.

Success is based on imagination plus ambition and the will to work.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay or a poem. Be flexible.

Two bricklayers work side by side. The first lays bricks. The second builds magnificent cathedrals. Think small vs. think big.

A work of art is a renewable source of energy.

It was not the story of design or clothes, it was the fantasy of women that made me want to work in fashion.

The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.

Remember technology does not make good work. You can still write a poem on a brown paper bag, and haiku is just as profound as the pyramids.

One must have a high opinion of a work of art - not the work one is creating at the moment, but of that which one desires to achieve one day. Without this it is not worthwhile working.

I have plenty of machinery around me; what I really need is a more enchanting world in which to live and work.