Quotes About Imagination

I dreamed of being like Kaka, and Brazil was the home of that creative style, which the Brazilians call ginga.

I have always been interested in having people fall into the image and be aware of their reaction first, and then think about the style.

My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I'm a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to me, 'Girl, you make me see pictures in my head!' and I took that as a great compliment. That's exactly my intention.

I'm not very aware of styles. We never talk about styles before we start shooting, or even during shooting, because I think the film will bring you there.

Animation in itself has so many different looks and styles and possibilities.

I was a science fiction geek. That lets you know that they come in all sizes and styles, right?

I mean the cool thing about the movies is that you get to try on these different personalities and different styles.

It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles.

When I was a kid, I saw 'Heavy Metal' the movie, and my mind was blown. I loved the idea that you could have all these different stories in different styles that are linked together.

I thought, 'A biennial needs artists. I'm going to do an international biennial; I need artists from all around the world.' So what I did was I invented a hundred artists from around the world. I figured out their bios, their passions in life and their art styles, and I started making their work.

I wrote a story about a character who looks like Harry Styles. But it has nothing to do with Harry Styles at all.

The books I love most are the ones that combine some sort of gripping story with really beautiful or stylish writing. Some of my favorites are 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy, 'The Virgin Suicides' by Jeffrey Eugenides, 'The Interpreter of Maladies' by Jhumpa Lahiri, and 'Blindness' by Jose Saramago.

If I could be a stylist, I would style somebody.

It was kind of fun to make 'Cloudy,' which has such a stylized look, and then do 'LEGO,' which, while it's stylized, is also photo-real.

The Beatles are here, and if you could see me my hand is on the ceiling. Styx is here, and my hand is in the basement.

I've always been able to just concoct a melody quite easily - it's just kind of instinct, really. You've got to channel your subconscious.

I don't know why I paint what I paint. I think it comes out - it's kind of my subconscious or something.

It just comes out of my subconscious. If you asked me to draw you a doodle, I couldn't do it.

The comics are where all the crazy subconscious stuff comes out.

I don't mess around with my subconscious.

I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarity.

When you write a story, it just flows and you don't control it. It's subconscious.

When I sit down to make music, I try to enter a flow; I always open a blank session and just make something that I feel like making. Only after a piece of music is done does my frontal cortex allow me to organize what might be trying to come out of my subconscious.

A lot of writing takes place in the subconscious, and it's bound to have an effect.