Quotes About Imagination

Your hopes and dreams, as well as your perception of the world around you, come through in your work and make it unique.

I don't see why escapist literature shouldn't also be a work of art.

Of course, all my work is photographed and I also take quite a lot of photographs of work in production.

Don't write about trying to change the world, just write about a changed world or a world that's not changing. Let that do the work.

Oulipo ends where the work begins.

Sometimes I'll hear a phrase or a word and write it down in my little black notebook (a writer's best mate), then come back to it and work a plot around it.

Any sort of working drawings are simply diagrams. Architecture encourages your imagination to work that way.

Well, the nice thing about animation, you don't even really have to account for yourself. All of the physical stuff that you work on as an actor, you just throw away.

A poet's work consists less in seeking words for his ideas than in seeking ideas for his words and predominant rhythms.

I am very present in my work and my work is somehow an expression of my soul, but at the same time I think that a writer cannot write out of nothing.

Comic books, graphic novels, involve constant toggling and it's hard work. You get tired reading comic books, but you never get tired looking at pictures or reading words.

I'd love to work with Disney again.

You don't read it in the sense of reading a message; it doesn't work like that. What's happening is that the Shadows are responding to the attention you pay them.

I think I write or publish as much as I do because I can bear being without a book to work on.

If I ever meet a writer or a painter, I don't presuppose that they are like the work they are presenting.

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs.

There are some very creative people out there who are like Steven Meisel, and that is why their work is so extraordinary.

I get to kind of pretend I'm going to play baseball. I get to work out and do all the stuff that was part of baseball. I just don't get to play.

The way I write is really like putting one foot in front of the other. I really let the characters do most of the work, they start talking and they just lead the way.

All great masters, in their work, seek that profound void within color and outside time.

The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer.

Ultimately I want to be able to create whatever I want whenever I want. And if that doesn't work, I don't mind just doing weird plays.

I can work inside the boundaries of Erika Murphy, or whoever the character is. It's fun to create somebody that's not you, that doesn't exist.

As a writer, it's fun to free yourself enough to tap into some darker elements of your personality that sometimes I don't even know exist. It doesn't feel like work.