Writers transform: they throw a hand grenade into the notion of reality that people carry around in their heads. That's very dangerous, very destructive, but not to do it means you are satisfied with the status quo - and that's a kind of danger as well, because a kind of violence is already being perpetuated.
The number of mystery and horror writers I've met who are just the sanest and the nicest people... it's crazy. Maybe it's because the writing gets something out of the system?
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.
Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that has nothing to do with acquisition.
When things become peculiar, frustrating and strange, I think it's a good time to start painting.
Art ... is a force which blows the roof off the cave where we crouch imprisoned.
My relationship with 'Star Wars' is that I'm old enough that I saw it when it first came out - 'A New Hope,' that is - and it was like when Dorothy steps out of black and white into Technicolor. I was transported from a gray, miserable 1970s London into a different galaxy, and I didn't know what it was, but I wanted to be a part of it.
Art is about imagination. When you look at a picture from Salvador Dali, that's about imagination. When you look at Picasso, that's about imagination. Doing stuff from your heart.
New York can be any city it wants to be.
I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.
We are all innovators, we all like to use our imagination, which is our greatest tool.
Anything you can imagine, you can put on film.
All film, at the end of the day, has wish-fulfillment.
A child her wayward pencil drew On margins of her book; Garlands of flower, dancing elves, Bud, butterfly, and brook, Lessons undone, and plum forgot, Seeking with hand and heart The teacher whom she learned to love Before she knew t'was Art.
I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to burst.
writing fiction is the best thing there is because absolutely everything is possible!
There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.
I just can't afford to get bored, because if you've been blessed with a generous imagination, which a lot of actors have, to be engaged, to be stimulated, is to liberate your imagination.
Cinema has opened a world of possibilities up for me.
Something different happened to me when I started to write music to images. It was a feeling of excitement and connection and a sense of being in the right place that I never had before.
Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.
We are going to see a burst of creativity that will make the Renaissance pale in comparison.
A-POC unleashes the freedom of imagination. It's for people who are curious, who have inner energy - the energy of life and living.
Roald Dahl worked with other illustrators, but it was only when he teamed up with Quentin Blake that the chemistry began to fizz. Quentin Blake is Britain's greatest living illustrator and has that special talent all the great illustrators have, of unobtrusive brilliance.
