Quotes About Imagination

Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten.

I'm foremost an actor. I feel embarrassed being compared to the guys who really work at it. I fake it, I make believe I know all about it, which is what you're supposed to do as an actor.

How I work is that I write a story I'd like to read. Then you fly to Paris or Sydney and the interviewers talk about the greater significance of your work.

Artists can no more speak about their work, than plants can speak about horticulture.

Peter Rabbit, for all its gentle tininess, loudly proclaims that no story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it is not a work of imagination.

I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work.

Some people say I'm a dreamer, others say, 'If you fall asleep at work again we're going to have to let you go'.

My young men shall never work. Men who work cannot dream, and wisdom comes to us in dreams.

A work of art may be understood as a conductor from the artist's mind to the viewer's. But it may never reach the viewer, or it may never leave the artist's mind.

I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word processor and a guitar.

Ideas for work are coming to me in abundance...I'm going like a painting-locomotive.

Besides, you don't work for a dollar - you work to create and have fun.

Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.

Writing is an act of empathy. You are occupying and understanding a point of view that might be alien to your own--and work is often the keyhole through which you peer.

I love being an illustrator because I get to read really great stories, work with amazing people, travel and see places I never would've seen. And I get to draw all the time.

As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play.

Most of the time, the creative part is like playing in a sandbox. I can sit here and work for 12 hours and not get tired of it.

The word story is intended to alert the reader to the fact that, however closely the narrative may fit the facts, the fictional process has been at work.

I want to question the images that are in our memory. There is always a double level in my work; what you see is true and at the same time not true.

The mystery of light [and] the enigma of time form the twin pivots around which all my work revolves. In addition... my work attempts to create a mythology for our contemporary world.

All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.

The very basis of creative work is irreverence! The very basis of creative work is bold experimentation. There has never been a creator of lasting importance who has not also been an innovator.

You are an artist. What work of art will you leave behind?

A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story.