Quotes About Imagination

We strive to further the occurrence of whatever we imagine will lead to Joy, and to avert or destroy what we imagine is contrary to it, or will lead to Sadness.

We are trying to communicate that which lies in our deepest heart, which has no words, which can only be hinted at through the means of a story.

A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.

Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.

Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain.

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves.

Books woke me up. Books are my favorite man-made objects. I fetishize their design, smell, feel. And that they can contain such burning, complex communications is a miracle to me.

Although I cannot move, and I have to speak through a computer, in my mind, I am free.

My dream was actually just to have a computer some day. If I'd imagined that it meant starting a company to sell them, I probably would have avoided the whole thing.

The brain is a robot-computer perfectly designed to fabricate any reality we program it to construct.

With Scratch, we want to let kids to be the creators. We want them to create interesting, dynamic things on the computer.

When somebody has learned how to program a computer ... You're joining a group of people who can do incredible things. They can make the computer do anything they can imagine.

I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen.

If you've got a stick hitting a drum and you're programming it on a computer, it's so much more interesting than a sample playing back - it's something in the air, that's the magical ingredient.

Clearly, if wed had the kind of computer graphics capability then that we have now, the Star Gate sequence would be much more complex than flat planes of light and color.

I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain.

Anything is possible when tackling a blank sheet with ink. It's less distracting because I'm away from my computer and all of its convenient diversions.

It's still the classic thing to get nice lines, but knowing that your computer model, on your little machine, is on the screen, is priceless. And that doesn't happen too often I don't think.

I am aware that a computer can't create a poem, but neither can a typewriter.

The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.

Writing is a lot like making soup. My subconscious cooks the idea, but I have to sit down at the computer to pour it out.

The computer is the way I'm making books, but I still think about the physical properties. I visualize the length of a book, the proportions of a book, in material terms.

To take full advantage of computer animation, you have to pay as much attention to the believable as you do the unbelievable.

With a book tucked in one hand, and a computer shoved under my elbow, I will march, not sidle, shudder or quake, into the twenty-first century.