Quotes About Imagination

Make creativity your religion... because creating is soulful work.

If I want to do the kind of work that I like to act in, I need to open my mind to it.

God wills, man dreams, the work is born.

Comics are so full of amazing work. And I can't look at a drawing of a woman without thinking of, for instance, Wallace Wood and his amazing way of capturing beauty.

The romantics really did want to romanticise the world itself, and that meant re-creating the state, society and even nature so that it became a work of art.

Every work of art depicts an aspect of reality.

For the first time in history we can work backward from our imagination rather than forward from our past.

When I'm not actually doing my work, I'm planning it or thinking about it or reading things that on some level are transformed into performance fantasies. I have no active interests.

If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn out better than you thought they would - ought to be in there somewhere, too.

The idea is that what an artist lives through should broaden his notion of what it is possible for a human being to live through, and that new understanding should then get into and expand the work.

The goal of the work is always for it to come across as original material, as transformative material.

Love the work: the grind, the dreaming, the distracted not-sleep, all of it.

What I like about theater is its team work. Theater is also all-time creativity.

Every ten years or so, I liked to do a film about an artist - this allowed me to reflect on our own work.

I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost

As many have noted, the peril for authors is that our work space is too easily our play space.

When you are far away from reality, your fantasy won't work.

The poem is the dream made flesh, in a two-fold sense: as work of art, and as life, which is a work of art.

O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art.

All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.

Imagination helps the realism of every detail, and only sees the beauties of the work.

It was sometimes 60 degrees [Celsius], but it's very strange, cinema makes you forget reality most of the time. You are more concerned about your inner feelings, or your work.

Play is a sacred thing, a divine ordinance, for developing in the child a harmonious and healthy organism, and preparing that organism for the commencement of the work of life.

The way that I work is that I try to work in metaphors, and you can't write a metaphor unless you know where you're going, so I always think about the future.