Quotes About Imagination

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

Remember that input is as important as output. Take in something for inspiration, to relight the fire inside you, and ideas on how to fix whatever isn't working in your writing will usually follow.

One of the things that fascinates me most is when people are so charmed by the universe that it becomes part of their artistic output.

I believe intellect is needed in order to develop any creative output and that intellect alone is not enough!

I like to say it's an attitude of not just thinking outside the box, but not even seeing the box.

When I was a kid, I couldn't see life outside ramen noodles and Kool-Aid.

Usually I'm the one who does the covers. And I just said, man, it would be nice to see what somebody else could do, outside of this thing. A fresher look. And I never, in a million years, would have come up with this. Believe me!

You know, when you look carefully at stuff that you deal with everyday, applying a little creativity to it and thinking outside the box, it's amazing what you can do.

When I'm writing, I'm in an isolation chamber. I'm not one to think about that outside world stuff when I'm writing.

Growing up, I always thought of hospitals as having a certain mystique that was impenetrable to the outside world. White-coated figures paraded through long hallways and entered doorways marked 'restricted access,' behind which I imagined miracles happened.

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.

Every writer is an outsider.

Writers tend to feel like outsiders.

I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.

I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over, it gets into you a little bit. You can't help but begin to feel it, even if you're a healthy person as I think I am.

I write in my house, at my desk, where I have Christmas lights strung over it to try and convince me that I'm having a good time. I can't really write anywhere else.

You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form.

I've always toyed around with creating over-the-top lady characters in my head.

I think the key to the success of a music video lies in its concept and the overall look.

I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I'm not so censored when I use dream material.

I seriously believed that my last hour was approaching, and yet, so strange is imagination, all I thought of was some childish hypothesis or other. In such circumstances, you do not choose your own thoughts. They overcome you.

Sometimes you have to delete characters from a scene just to keep from overcrowding the image.

Without sounding overly sentimental about the process, I'd say trying to describe how you tend to conceive of a book is like describing how you tend to fall in love.

There is probably no job on earth for which an ability to believe six impossible things before breakfast is more of a requirement than software project management.