Quotes About Imagination

I can see the character in a photograph, in the way a guy stands or holds his hands, the way he buckles his belt. I fantasize a lot looking at photographs. I'm sure that doesn't work for many people.

True muses stay dreams forever unless artists connect them to exploratory work.

If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.

A lot of my work just sort of flows and comes out of me and I don't know why or where.

It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.

Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don't really believe I am being impersonal when I do it. And I don't think you could do this.

Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.

There isn't an aspect of book creation I don't enjoy, and there has always been a book in my life to dream about or work on.

There's so much to be found in literature, especially if you don't have the money to travel or the means to get out of your neighborhood or get off work.

There's so much writing I could have done and so many ideas that I had and so many things I wanted to work on that I didn't. I like too much having things in my head rather than doing the work.

I always try to create new experiences that are fun to play.

What the work of art looks like isn't too important.

The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.

Stories help me. To live. To work. To find the meaning hidden in every dream, ever leaf, every drop of dew.

I hardly ever work from a synopsis -- I find they act like chains.

With every movie I do and every day I go to work, my goal is not just to reach for difference, but also figure out how to look at world and characters in a different way.

A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.

I see the canvas and I begin... It's a necessary evil to get into the work, and it's pretty marvelous to be able to get out of it.

Work up imagination to the state of vision.

Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.

What you picture in your mind, your mind will go to work to accomplish. When you change your pictures you automatically change your performance

Any work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.

I admire photographers that don't need a destination. In some ways, street photography is like that. There's a quality of wanderlust for sure in my work, but I need a destination.

My aim is to escape from the medium with which I work.