Quotes About Imagination

My brain begins to work stuff out, but then kinda half way through, it starts wandering off and it's like ahh, unicorns.

The scope of material I can work with is not limited to the set of things that we inherit from nature.

All good work has magic in it, and addresses the mind in a subtle way.

Until the raw ingredients of a pudding make a pudding, I shall never believe that the raw material of sensation and thought can make a work of art without the cook's intervening.

The only thing that we can really make is our work, and deliberate work of the mind, imagination and hand, done, as Nietzsche said, 'notwithstanding,' in the long run remakes the world.

Writing is nearly always a matter of finding whatever your brain needs to trick it into being creative, and in my case, a tiny little bit of fact just seems to work.

Perhaps the sketch of a work is so pleasing because everyone can finish it as he chooses.

At times I'd much rather talk about other work.

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.

I think people have come to expect that in artistic representation; that every work of art should be a work of extravagant hope.

To work from nature is to improvise.

One day I noticed that I could go on working my art motif no matter what the weather might be. I no longer needed the sun, for I took my light everywhere with me.

The mathematician's best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid. Mathematical genius and artistic genius touch one another.

I guess I dont come to the work without baggage. I have an idea of what I want my pictures to look like in my head, and if they dont match up, I find it frustrating.

Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram.

There is no Sixth Commandment in art. The poet is entitled to lay his hands on whatever material he finds necessary for his work.

A great work always leaves us in a state of musing.

Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea.

I love artists. I love watching other people work.

I can imagine wanting to work with this ensemble and this company always.

Muscle-work can only make one weary-it takes brain-work to create true exhaustion.

For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.

One must be just a little crazy to write a great novel. One must be capable of allowing the darkest, most ancient and shrewd parts of one's being to take over the work from time to time.

I do enjoy a bit of the fantasy world that anime provides, but at the same time, I need the reality in it. I'm very much a stickler about the actual animation. I'm not into the cutesy, stereotypical animation with big eyes and a small chin. That annoys the hell out of me.