Quotes About Imagination

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.

Sometimes, indeed often, we work on a theme with an unformed idea, and, when it has passed through the process, its final result is something we could never have predicted when we commenced.

I have the "thing" worked out - the trick or the surprise or the pivotal fact. Then I just start somewhere and let the story work itself out.

Long necks. The thrust of the head in a certain position. The way the fingers work, fabrics work. It's all part of my painting background.

I never feel age... If you have creative work you don't have age or time.

I work from the people that interest me, and that I care about, in rooms that I live in and know. I use the people to invent my pictures, and I can work more freely when they are there.

Fiction is not a dream. Nor is it guesswork. It is imagining based on facts, and the facts must be accurate or the work of imagining will not stand up.

It is possible to deal with the entire environment as a work of art.

Have you noticed ... there is never any third act in a nightmare? They bring you to a climax of terror and then leave you there. They are the work of poor dramatists.

Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody.

I learned to write by writing. I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it felt like work, which meant that life did not feel like work.

The biggest misconception usually is to assume that I am a scientist and that I work for scientists. I work for the public to access the surreal and fantastical in science.

Nature is the best and really the only real vocabulary that an artist can legitimately work with.

It's important to keep the eccentric spirit alive, because when that goes, the work will go.

As part of my research, I read a lot. Then I think and do a lot of sketches. I'll never go to work on the computer unless I have ideas first.

I never work from an outline, and often I dont know how the story will end.

I don't like pictures in books. I feel that the pictures diminish the words, and the words diminish the pictures, and it doesn't work.

The strong experience of nature... is the necessary basis for all conception of art on which rests the grandeur and beauty of all future work.

This is truly marvelous work full of mystery, nostalgia, joy, The Color of Whimsy.

Normally I work out a general summary of what I mean to do, then start writing, and the details can be different from my anticipation. So there is considerable flow, but always within channels.

My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.

I have always tried to keep truth in my photographs. My work, whether realistic or abstract, has always dealt with a form of religion or imagination.

My dreams are my work. I design out of the things that I love.

My work is more driven by the creative word. It's immersed in other writing and printed work, rather than drawn so much from life or past experience.