Quotes About Imagination

A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.

If you work on your creativity, you deepen your spirituality. And if you work on your spirituality, you deepen your creativity.

The highest and best work of imagination is the marvelous transformation that it works in character. Imagine that you are one with the principal of good, and you will become truly good.

If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.

It is the natural instinct of a child to work from within outwards; "First I think, and then I draw my think." What wasted efforts we make to teach the child to stop thinking, and only to observe!

Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.

To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art does not live in the present, it must not be considered at all.

I never sat down and decided to make work about life and death. It just all comes out of my head like water pouring out of a jug.

Poetry's work is not simply the recording of inner or outer perception; it makes by words and music new possibilities of perceiving

To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.

If you're committed enough, you can make any story work. I once told a woman I was Kevin Costner, and it worked because I believed it.

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work least, for they are thinking out inventions.

In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.

Man's usual routine is to work and to dream and work and dream.

I would like to try to understand what is. We know very little, and I am trying to do it by creating analogies. Almost every work of art is an analogy.

A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them.

No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

What I expect from any work of art is that it surprises me, that it violates my customary valuations of things and offers me other, unexpected ones.

The thing I do at the beginning is a "voice journal," a free form doc that is the character speaking to me. I just work on it until I start to hear different from my own, or the other characters.

I've never learned to drive because I get lots of ideas when I'm a passenger in a car. I love to get in a car with a driver and just think and work things out.

Ideas rather than methods are central to they way I work, although drawing plays a central generative role in everything I do.

The books I haven't written are better than the books other people have.

Look around at day-to-day life for ideas, and it finds its way into your work.