Quotes About Imagination

When I was a kid, I liked books that just seemed so dense you could lose yourself in them for a whole afternoon. They were like their own whole world.

We have a whole art department on 'Billy on the Street.' We give away dioramas that we've made.

I'm always reading several books at the same time, depending on how deeply engrossed in it I am, if it's fiction and if it captures me.

India lends itself well to fictionalization, but ultimately, it all depends on the writer's imagination.

Something like reading depends a lot on just having people around you who talk to you and read you books, more than sitting down and, say, doing a reading drill when you're 3 or 4 years old.

What people don't understand is that how you are as an artist depends on how you are emotionally.

But it is a delightful challenge to try to depict interesting aliens.

It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.

I wanted more in depth ideas about the character and it never came.

I believe what Wondaland is doing is creating depth.

If I have a goal, then it is to escape from this literalism. I'll never achieve it; in the same way that I'll never manage to describe what really dwells within my character, although I keep on trying.

That's what art is for me. It helps you maintain hope by giving you the ability to either create outside your reality, or to describe your reality.

Film has to describe and show.

With most of my books, I'll actually go out and look at the setting. If you describe things carefully, it kind of makes the scene pop.

Sometimes my lyrics may describe a situation that happened to a friend. Other times, I create a story from the ground up.

I like landscape, I guess. It's kind of a game to see how you can describe it.

I'm more into describing a scenario and I move around in that scenario.

In fantasy and science fiction, world-building is an essential part of the story. But as a reader, I don't just want descriptions of food, clothing, and places. I want to understand the world to its core, through the eyes of those who live in it.

Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics.

The artist in me cries out for design.

Ever since I was young I loved making things and being part of the design process.

I want to live in a space that I designed, that is for me.

Everyone wants to be a designer.

I didn't grow up thinking, 'Oh, I'm going to be a designer.'