Quotes About Imagination

So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.

If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.

I think directing is part play, part work, not just all work, because I think you always have to play. I think that's ultimately why I got into making movies, is because I love to play.

The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.

I get so tired of people saying, 'Oh, you only make fantasy films and this and that', and I'm like, 'Well no, fantasy is reality', that's what Lewis Carroll showed in his work.

I find that in the process of making a film you're constantly discovering things that you never even imagined would work at the beginning.

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

The way I work with my cinematographer is not based on general principles, but the ideas are triggered by the locations where we shoot.

The reality of things going on around me is more interesting than the fantasies of the world I work in.

A photograph can, by the addition of an unimportant spot of color, become a photomontage, a work of art of a special kind.

I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.

The books we enjoy as children stay with us forever -- they have a special impact. Paragraph after paragraph and page after page, the author must deliver his or her best work.

While listening, to things like western swing, for instance, I'd work something out in my head, then play it on my National; not the same song, but one that captured the feeling of the original tune.

Everything what's inspiring has been created by one who could work in freedom

I get very invested in characters, it's the only way I find that I can write a book and really make it work.

There's a real fantasy quotient to my work. Any play that I've written for myself to perform in basically begins with the idea, "Wouldn't it be fun to be, say, Jean Harlow in a pre-code movie?"

The severest test of work today, is not of our strategies, but of our imaginations and identities.

The writing for me is hard work and I always look forward to drawing the pictures.

When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.

Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.

When I was growing up, Dr. Seuss was really my favorite. There was something about the lyrical nature and the simplicity of his work that really hit me.

Gene Wolfe has produced a work of art that can satisfy adult appetites and in which even the most fantastical elements register as poetry rather than as penny-whistle whimsy.

I love writing. I love to write, and I would eventually love to have some of my work produced.