Quotes About Imagination

Many artists, when they are creating art, are searching for a vehicle that can manifest a feeling they have inside of themselves.

The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry.

Politics itself is so unsexy, isn't it? But when the politics in creative works are really explored - not used as a vehicle - the results can be really interesting.

Music has that ability to be a magical thing, and I was like, maybe music is the vehicle that transports us to that other world.

Science fiction should not be dismissed as escapism. It is a profound vehicle for talking about social and political issues.

Back before I entered primary school, I liked to draw, even though I was a brat. I especially liked animals and vehicles, and I drew that sort of thing constantly.

Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction.

'Automa' is probably my first sci-fi story. It's not hard sci-fi but more in the 'Terminator 2' vein.

I've always wanted to write science fiction. It was one of my first loves, and I knew if I became a writer someday I'd probably write something in the science fiction vein, but I hesitated for a long while because it's such well-trod ground.

For me, acting is like a therapy. I can express myself fully when I am acting and have blood in my veins. Even when I'm not working, I'm always living in my own world, imagining characters.

If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet.

When I was four I joined a group of girls who were talking about their party dresses. I thought they were imagining, so I imagined a fantastic pink velvet dress with lots of jewels. But they were simply describing what they actually wore, and they had utter contempt for my obvious fiction. After that, I never joined a group again.

Our Trolls are like gummy bears that have been flocked in velvet, and it's a world made of fiber art... carpeted floors, houses made of hair - even fire is made of hair.

I loved going surfing down on Venice Beach. I'd go out with a board under my arm and think, 'I can't do that in Cranhill.'

A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.

I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.

I feel that if you are a creative person, you choose various mediums to give vent to your ideas.

When I was a kid, I used to send away for those ventriloquist kits on the back of comic books.

I started with Katie, a doll I got on eBay on my 10th birthday. I don't use her anymore. I've got a new Katie now, a real ventriloquist's puppet.

Children are so used to seeing puppets that when they see a real ventriloquist they don't understand it.

To be honest, I wasn't a sci-fi geek at all. But I do love a good sci-fi film, especially one that can really take you away. And I read some reality-bending novels growing up, like stuff by Vonngeut, so I already had one part my brain open to the unnatural and unusual, and it's generally fun to venture into that world and film in it.

I'm a freestyle creative entrepreneur. Not a businessman. I like to create ventures in which creativity stands at the centre.

The circus itself is my personal ideal entertainment venue.

I thought a circus environment would be an interesting venue to explore, where you didn't just have one tent with three rings and a show going on but where you could explore different things in different tents.