Quotes About Imagination

When I write a screenplay - and I think it's one of the reasons why it was frustrating for me just to be a screenwriter - I'm not thinking of it in terms of words on a page; I'm thinking in terms of visual images - basically, a comic book. I'm thinking of it in a series of shots.

I haven't had the opportunity to study visual art, but it was always my first love when it came to artistic expression. I started drawing and experimenting with visual art when I was 5.

I love visual mediums, and I've always painted and drawn.

I trust the readers to build their own visual images. To me, that's part of the wonder of reading.

You are either visual or you're not.

I'm a very visual thinker, so the characters are running through my head, doing what they're doing when I'm writing them. And there'll be moments where I'll just kind of throw a look off to the side as if I'm talking to one of the characters. It's always been something that I've had with me since I was a little kid.

I'm inspired by visual stimulation.

The visual of Deadpool was very informed by Spider-Man.

If you create a visual that actually captures the imagination, that's not real. It will look real, and that will spread at such lightning speed that by the time it's found out, it has already done its damage. It's a very, very scary time that we're living in. I say it's an age of absurdity.

I had no visual imagination as a child. I liked playing football. That was it.

As a director, I start with the visual.

Usually, I think of the song, and then the video plays out in my head as I'm writing the song. I started rapping to become a comedian, so I'm certainly thinking about the visual component of things beyond just the music most of the time.

I thought I would be a visual artist when I was growing up, so I'm always up for a bit of experimentation.

Music reigns supreme. It does not need a visual prop. While listening to a number, do you enjoy the tune, or do you enjoy it because you imagine someone singing it? In fact, quite a few hits of mine are from films that no one has heard about. The songs still rule, though.

When I watch a movie I don't really care too much about the plot - not that it isn't important, but what I remember is the visual imagery, something that happens in an individual scene.

Well, I have to have some type of visual in my head to finish a song. I can't finish a song if I can't see anything.

I'm a visual person, a conceptual person.

I started as a visual artist and I've always dealt with music in that same sort of way.

Art is really more musical than it is visual.

Music doesn't have to sit within the confines of pop structure, you can really make stuff that's more visual.

Most of the time I write visually. I get a visual of me in the audience watching the concert. I usually come up with the hooks first. Like with 'Old School.'

I've always been involved in the visual arts and music.

I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.

I paint. I love the visual arts.