Quotes About Imagination

My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.

I often photograph something as if the subject matter was realistic, but it is actually a fantasy.

One's memories aren't what actually happened - they're very subjective. You can always make it much better, right?

The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.

I work from a subjective palette.

Nobody knows why we're alive; so we all create stories based on our imagination of the world; and as a community, we believe in the same story. In India, every person believes his/ her own mythosphere to be real. Indian thought is obsessed with subjectivity; Greek thought with objectivity.

We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.

There are some subjects that can only be tackled in fiction.

I don't know what any of my songs are about. I don't sit down to write about anything. They're about whatever you want. I don't pick subjects. I just start.

All my film ideas and subjects have come from photography.

I think a lot of kids are interested in two science subjects: dinosaurs and aliens. The reason is almost genetic; we're hard-wired to be interested in things that might be a little dangerous.

In school, some of my favorite subjects... I mean, art was my favorite subject. I loved art! I used to go during lunch time to the art room and paint or draw or something.

I spend several years trying to get inside the brain and heart of my subjects, listening to the interior monologues in their letters, and when I have to bridge the chasms between the factual evidence, I try to make an intuitive leap through the eyes and motivation of the person I'm writing about.

I love to write. I used to be a math teacher. And I like the idea that other people could write about the same subjects, but no one would write it just the way I do. It's very individual: a child could write the same story as somebody else, but it wouldn't come out the same.

I established my first writing routine when I was 13. The school year had just ended, and I'd won a stack of books for being the best student in a number of subjects. The pile included several 60-leaved notebooks that I decided to fill with short stories.

My job in many ways has been to navigate interesting routes around subjects people think are dull.

I have a dormant director in me. I do think about subjects and films I want to make. I get pretty excited about them.

My plan is to give new ideas to writers. They will come up with new subjects keeping me in mind.

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

I was interested in science or, at least, nature from an early age, learning the names of planets, cutting cartoons with facts about animals out of the newspaper and gluing them into a scrapbook, and, with a friend when I was five or six, trying to design a submarine.

I live on an old tugboat but feel that having a submarine would be the next level.

I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient to the songs, and I let them tell me what to do. I don't judge them; I just write whatever comes to me.

As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other.

The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness.