Quotes About Imagination

The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.

The only books that work are those which fly through the air - the ones you let happen, not make happen.

The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.

The lucky few who can be involved in creative work of any sort will be the true elite of mankind, for they alone will do more than serve a machine.

I work with whatever mediums seems best suited to evoking the sorts of thoughts and emotions I am interested in playing with.

I don't believe in inspiration. I believe in work, because while one works one's creativity is opened.

You can't just be reactive to the things going on in your life. You have to imagine, and you have to plunder other people's work, books, poems, ideas, observations.

Knowledge is the driving force that puts creative passion to work.

Computers are another tool for the creative artist - just as a flat or filbert brush is. But there was a time when I left a jar of medium open by my work station for that painterly smell.

The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.

It was play rather than work which enabled man to evolve his higher faculties - everything we mean by the word 'culture'.

I'm a rewriter. That's the part I like best . . . once I have a pile of paper to work with, it's like having the pieces of a puzzle. I just have to put the pieces together to make a picture.

don't stop to think of the words when you do stop, just stop to think of the picture better-and let your mind off yourself in this work.

The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.

It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.

Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy.

I write in my sleep. I don't know how, but I'll work on a song, go to sleep and it's finished when I wake up.

The person viewing your work has no idea what the scene really looked like, nor do they care.

I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.

I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.

Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

The subject of my work has a lot to do with general, artistic matters, questions like: What is creativity? Where do we come from? What are our motors? What is coincidence? What is logic?

My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in the blanks for anybody else, you know what I mean?

"The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away."