Quotes About Imagination

I didn't love stickers and unicorns and stuff, but just if I were to ride on the back of a beast to work, I want it to be a frickin' unicorn.

Usually I work with a digital camera and compose my works digitally or give them a finish on the computer, in order to make them meet my ideas perfectly.

Marlon once said to me about being an actor: Can you imagine going to work every day and pretending to be someone else?

Writing is a consciousness formally at work in the territory of the imaginary.

Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.

A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.

Art is the path of the creator to his work.

The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it.

While this may seem peculiar, the combo of work and distraction leads to levels of innovation not often generated by structured, focused thinking alone.

Take your brush here and there like a bee in an alpine meadow. In other words, don't laboriously work on or try to finish off one particular part. Paint promiscuously.

Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.

It seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later I can go back and hack around and make sense of things.

I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.

The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.

Creativity is a by-product of hard work. If I never have another really new idea, it won't matter.

A lot of movies try to set up a world with cool sets, costumes, camera work. In Brick, the world is born from the words.

When I left college, I was out of work for three years. I had this dream of being on 'SNL,' and that was all I could imagine.

With the way I like to work, I always have to draw [inspiration] from somewhere, and the best place to take from is your own life.

I love and care about literature, and great writers are our teachers. You're studying their mind when you read their work.

For me, the poetry in a work is that which makes visible the invisible.

An idea that will translate really well musically should work visually. I try to write music that you can feel if you were to close your eyes you can see what I am talking about.

Any work of art must first of all tell a story.

Self-censorship, whether known or unknown, is an unwelcome brake on creativity; it stifles self-expression and hence prevents a work from reaching the heights of great art.

There are no personal revelations other than feelings arising from the work itself