Quotes About Imagination

Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.

I dream too much, work too little.

Photographers, it is true, do not work but they do do something: They create, process, and store symbols.

Don't wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.

When you have a character to work with, you carry them around in a strange way - they make you look at the world in a different way.

Think inside the work - outside the work

Writing is hard work, but a lot of fun, too. It allows me to live out some of my fantasies.

Art has definitely influenced how I think of design, both as individual items and as a body of work.

Creativity is energy being put to work in a constructive fashion.

A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper.

Concern for morality makes every work of the imagination false and stupid.

Since I am a person who starts work without clear knowledge of a storyline, every single scene is a pivotal scene.

A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature.

Some of my best work is done when I'm half asleep.

Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times.

If you're going to have a complicated story you must work to a map; otherwise you'll never make a map of it afterwards.

In my view, photography and painting really share one history. The influences that work on one, work on the other.

I would say that writing, both the act of writing, and of course reading of other people's work is, for me, supreme joy.

The documentation about the work isn't of real importance to me either. I've done lots of works without taking photographs.

The work my mum does, a lot of it is re-housing homeless people, that's a real job. I play make-believe and dressing up for a living!

Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.

Ideally I would like the work to be a hybrid between painting and photography.

Music and art is about ideas, I think. Especially music. You have the freedom to work with your ideas and your dreams and your fantasies, which is quite hard to do in many other places.

Great imaginations are apt to work from hints and suggestions, and a single moment of emotion is sometimes sufficient to create a masterpiece.