Quotes About Imagination

All of the art that I love is about peeling back layers and delving into something that's in a subconscious or dream realm. People like Jan Svankmajer, or the artist Yoshimoto Nara, or David Lynch.

All stories come from the subconscious - which is why it doesn't make sense to over-plan.

I'm not afraid of just cranking it out and seeing what comes out of my subconscious. Because I don't always know what I'm feeling. I do a lot of rewriting later. But that first blast feels like a spigot - like it's coming from somewhere else.

It's interesting what pops out of an author's subconscious when he's not thinking about it.

I've found that when I'm having trouble solidifying a character or a scene, that music will often free my subconscious just that last little bit to allow me to move forward, and often it's in a direction that I didn't expect, but is 100 percent true to the character.

Pop culture is like our subconscious.

I'm a big fan of monsters. Number one, they're fun, and two, they're such great ways to access the subconscious fears and beliefs of any group of people.

Whatever part of writing that is subconscious is a thing that no one has access to.

Writing music - particularly music without lyrics - calls almost exclusively on the subconscious.

When I wake up, if I can't figure something out during the daytime and then wake up at 4 A.M., it's there immediately. I don't know if it's the subconscious mind working, but it just happens.

Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks.

Fantasy isn't something I put into the pictures; I don't try and inject them with a sense of play. But it's about being an honest photographer; a photograph is as much of a mirror of the photographer as it is the subject.

What you need to have is that link between your education and what you do. Make creativity part of the subject.

I never know what it's going to look like. Wouldn't be much point in painting if I already knew the outcome. I have a subject in front of me and I start flooding colour and making marks, I don't know, it's improvisation isn't it?

For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.

When you act, you've got to be like a poet or a musician. It's not about evidence before court. It's not a forensic subject. It's poetry; it's a completely different place.

Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.

With a photograph, you are left with the same modes of interpretation as you are with a book. You ask: 'What do we know about the author and their background? What do I know about the subject?'

I don't really think about what the subject of my next album will be. I just know that I'm going to make another album.

A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.

The possibilities in sci-fi are wonderful. The subject is bigger than everything we know.

There are people who can sit down and write a song about any given subject, and they can do it really, really well.

I'm a writer, and the subject is less important than the act of writing itself.

Many of our buildings have large format murals that are of varying subject matter, and we've found that those are the sort of things that make people stop, digest, and absorb.