Quotes About Imagination

When creative people do their best work, they're hardly ever in charge, they're just sort of rolling along with their eyes shut yelling wheee.

Before the work comes to you, you have to invent work.

Art doesn't spring from the muses alone, but from hard work.

I have always felt like an artist when I work on a book. I see no reason why the word should always be confined to writers of fiction and poetry.

I never had money for anything. But I tell you what did really work - books. Between the covers of those books I could go anyplace, I could be anybody, I could do anything.

When I work, I live in a fantasy world. It's great. I get to play different characters who inspire me.

The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.

Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.

I don't know of any good work of art that doesn't have a mystery.

I like the idea that my work isn't intended only for the Earth, but for the entire Universe.

The movie feels to me like a real work of lovely art.

All creative work has its greatest reality while it is still in a man's mind, before he begins to execute it.

Authors must spend months, years making fantasy believable in a single work while reality runs rampant and complete chaos elsewhere.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

I saw that my best work was my most personal work, which is odd, because my fiction is very far afield and has nothing to do with my life.

I get a lot of work done in my dreams and I don't want to take anybody else's work with me.

Sometimes I feel like I'm in a dream world, because it doesn't always seem too logical how things work out.

You can understand a lot about yourself by working out which fairytale you use to present your world to yourself in.

When I finally got up to Industrial Light And Magic to work on the 'Star Wars' movies as a model-maker, it felt like dying and going to heaven.

The way I think of my work is that I have to think up the way to tell a story, starting from scratch. The changes in the industry concern me in a general way because I think civilization is doomed.

The fewer limitations the artist imposes on his work, the less chance he has for artistic success.

I can kid people, including myself, into believing that something on the page will work. But when you film it, you just think, "Oh ...".

Work is an opportunity to bring something forth-to create something, complete something, invent something authentic and original.

Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look like the old ones. In other words it can only work by suppressing originality.