Quotes About Imagination

It's as if Thomas Kinkade and Dante were at a party, and one turned to the other sometime after midnight and uttered that classic line "You know, we really should work together sometime.

The Canadian painter A. Y. Jackson noted that 'failure of sight' was a tiresome problem. He meant we should be able to look at our work-in-progress as if it were previously unseen.

A simple equation for the production of successful art work is lots of reference material plus lots of art supplies equals lots of painting happiness.

It's when you've stopped writing and are doing other things, especially when you're asleep, that the real work is done.

As an artist, you have the job of working out whatever is given you to work out.

The real artist's work is a surprise to himself.

If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.

There's this great fantasy of going to work, every day, and getting to play out what people think my life is, as a successful actor.

Are there sexual fetishes that involve books? There must be. I try not to imagine how they might work.

I love drawing, whether it's considered work or not, but I'm always drawing, and that's the core of the work. Everything comes from drawing.

When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside the characters I've got.

Whatever you can think, you can create; just have a very clear vision... Once you have your snapshot, work on filling in the blanks to get to that place.

[T]he judicious reader ought to know what the chief character in any work of the imagination will naturally perform, according to the situation he is thrown into, as well as doth the author himself.

I suppose if I was to have to pick a few, Ursula LeGuin would have to top the list. It was while reading her work that I decided I wanted to be an author.

I define art as a work created by a human that has a unique point of view and discovers something that was not there before.

The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real.

I enjoyed reading Batman, and Superman, and all the super ones, but I never wished I created them. I've got to let there be some work for other people!

I work with people and we come up with ideas for movies, television and things like that. It's fun and I love doing it.

My studio work is a central part of my life and I'd be at loose ends without it. When I'm not in my studio, I don't stop thinking about painting.

Writing fiction, especially a long work of fiction, can be a difficult, lonely job; it's like crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a bathtub. There's plenty of opportunity for self-doubt.

Artists are modest. They know they're not doing the work; they're just taking dictation.

Art is not only about something; it is something. A work of art is a thing in the world, not just a text or commentary on the world.

All persistent practices in art have a creative function. They may serve several ends, but the chief one is the shaping of the work.

I think that's the problem with kids now. Everything is manufactured. And then they're sitting there watching the television, where all the work is done for them. Radio made me use my imagination.