Quotes About Imagination

I hate dream sequences in movies and T.V. shows generally for their heavy-handed symbolism and storytelling tediousness.

Studio D has a lot of symbolism for me.

'Pomegranate,' started with my imagining a bullet going through the fruit and causing it to bleed. My initial associations were with pomegranates in old masters painting and their Judeo-Christian symbolism.

Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.

If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

You can go from object to object, from plant to plant, from animal to animal and regard them as symbols for the spiritual. In this way, you make your imaginative capacities fluid and release them from the sharp contours of sense perception.

Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.

Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood or the markings on a fish or a lizard. Imaginary shapes are just that, symbols that come to a person in dreams or reveries and are charged with meaning.

I think math is a hugely creative field, because there are some very well-defined operations that you have to work within. You are, in a sense, straightjacketed by the rules of the mathematics. But within that constrained environment, it's up to you what you do with the symbols.

The American people want something terse, forcible, picturesque, striking - something that will arrest their attention, enlist their sympathy, arouse their indignation, stimulate their imagination, convince their reason, awaken their conscience.

Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well.

Technology means the kind of music you can make on your own if you've got an imagination is amazing. It's crazy that I can sit with a Mac and a keyboard and a mic and create a symphony.

When Sean and I are old, we're just going to compose weird abstract symphonies.

With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the same house for 40 years. What about the expanding family syndrome, the school-lottery migration, the property portfolio neurosis? Have you no imagination?

I don't know a kid who grew up in the '90s who wasn't obsessed with Disney, and I guess I never grew out of that phase, honestly. It's not just Disney: it's anything that has to do with fairytales for me. I think I just have Peter Pan Syndrome or something.

What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?

This... is a synthetic world many of us live in today - a dream, if you will.

The arts investigate the properties of the world by playing with materials - such as stone, paint, fabric, synthetic substances, the human body, the human voice and of course language.

I grew up as an only child with a single mother. Because we were poor and because I knew my father had emigrated from Syria, I imagined he looked like Omar Sharif.

When I was a child, I named my rabbit Pancake and my guinea pig Maple Syrup.

Art is messy, art is chaos - so you need a system.

Museums are custodians of epiphanies, and these epiphanies enter the central nervous system and deep recesses of the mind.

I don't plot my books rigidly, follow a preconceived structure. A novel mustn't be a closed system - it's a quest.