Quotes About Imagination

Artists aren't really people. I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache.

I always thought it'd be fun to write something, but it never was an ambition of mine, per se.

I don't sit down to write a song, per se.

A picture story just doesn't run like a film. It doesn't have 24 frames per second. It doesn't deal with this illusion of movement.

When you have one idea per year, it's already a miracle!

I did not fix any genre for 'AK.' We just write a story and audience will put it in a genre as they perceive it.

It is the function of creative man to perceive and to connect the seemingly unconnected.

What comes to me always is a character, a scene, a moment. That's going to be the beginning. Then, as I write, I begin to perceive an ending. I begin to see a destination, although sometimes that changes. And then, of course, there's the whole middle section looming.

What I perceive in science fiction is that it's more about how everything looks than what's going on, which I think is just difficult if you're an action character. I think they are about character, not about what it looks like.

Because I'm a synesthete I see characters in colors and I perceive a W as green.

No artist wants to be perceived as a regurgitator.

I love art so much because of curiosity. At the start of a painting, I know 10 percent of what the painting will be, and then I have to improvise the whole thing.

That's what 90 percent of the people talk about when they're first exposed to the fish.

When I read a character that I really, really love, I know immediately what they look like. It's like I want to 100 percent become that person.

When I was a kid, I used to see apparitions and have hallucinations, and my entire perception of the world was badly disoriented. And I had kind of a chaotic childhood because of that. I've really hung onto it, though. Because I actually like those feelings.

My synesthesia is mostly gone - it was a much bigger factor when I was a kid. But having no depth perception is a bonus when you're trying to lay out flat images and describe them to an artist - flat is all I see.

When I was a kid, I had no perception whatever that science fiction was supposed to be a boys' club.

When it comes to the lyrics, I write about my own perception of things and use characters for that.

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

The fun of being in the pop world is you can really play with people's perceptions of what the word pop means.

These are ideas. I could say that they just came to me, but it would be more accurate to say that I went to them. Ideas - and new connections between ideas - lead you away from commonly held perceptions of reality. Ideas lead you out here. Ideas lead you into the darkness.

Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.

One of the things I love about writing is the way you can use what you know and what you've experienced, without actually writing about yourself. I've given many of my experiences and perceptions to many of the characters in the book, but none of them is me.

Our abilities are limited only by our perceptions.