Quotes About Imagination

Often, I get the feeling that the story is really happening somewhere and all I'm doing is trying to work out the best way to tell it.

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.

The miracle is that a work of art should live in the person who reads it.

Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.

Creating and producing creative work, to me those are all happy accidents.

Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist.

I'm a designer, and I think if you work in fashion, you have to give people fantasy.

Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie.

If you like to tell stories and compose sentences, and if you work hard at being good at these things, then you are a writer even if you haven't published anything.

I am not that thrilled about the way our records sound anyway. Don't get me wrong, I work hard on them and I want them to sound fantastic but I'm happy to have another interpretation of them anyway.

Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing.

The artist has only to remain true to his dream and it will possess his work in such a manner that it will resemble the work of no other man.

In storytelling, the audience actually wants to work for their meal, they just don't want to know that they're doing it.

I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work

My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis

The only original part in a work of art is the infusion of the artist's own character, if he has one.

I work with nature, although in completely new terms.

Those who are waiting for an epiphany to strike may wait forever. The artist simply goes to work, making art, both good and not so good.

I am fine, though it is hard to think of what kind of work to make at this point, other than decorative, escapist or abstract. I suppose I'll explore one or all of these things.

To be a dramatic writer takes hard work, talent, and discipline. And that's why I just make up crap.

Art goes on in your head. If you said something interesting, that might be a title for a work of art and I'd write it down.

I work with my dreams or nightmares.

I believe in creative work.

For a true work of creativity, you must reach beyond yourself to bring correct draftsmanship together with strong composition and lifelike colors.