Paul Gauguin Quotes

Writing is flying in dreams. When you remember. When you can. When it works. It's that easy.

Dream up the kind of world you want to live in. Dream out loud.

Using one's imagination to the fullest is necessary for a happy life.

Without the word dream, or the concept dream, and without the word blue and the emotions, I would have been really limited in the things I've written and performed.

Writing music is like tasting the sky. It keeps me dreaming in color.

But to make the intangible tangible, to pick the emotion out of the air and make it true for others, is both the blessing and the curse of the writer, for the thing between book covers is never as beautiful as the thing he imagined.

Now, that can be a traditional form or it can be something you're inventing. It can be the development of a metaphor, the working through of a metaphor.

There's a fine line between imagination and reality. An inventor dreams something up, and pretty soon, it's there on the table before him. A science-fiction writer envisions another world, and then some space probe finds it. If you believe in something strongly enough, I think you can make it happen.

Dream on it. Let your mind take you to places you would like to go, and then think about it and plan it and celebrate the possibilities. And don't listen to anyone who doesn't know how to dream.

The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.

Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress, happiness and love... if you could feel it, I could feel it. And I could write a song about it.

The more I see and know about life, the more ideas I have and the more I want to make art.

I have no philosophy, my favourite thing is sitting in the studio.

I get so much inspiration from my travels, but I also started an exercise where I write down so many words every week. Then I begin crossing them off. We create a grid of words and also images, but words for me are more ample because you can interpret them your own way.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper. But a lot of it is imagination. It's not based on real people.

I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.

When I first made a grid, I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees, and then a grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, 'This is my vision.'

Writing that flirts with incoherence can just as readily flounder as writing characterized by simplicity and composure. There is no reliable formula for originality, and strategies that are distinguished as innovative in their first incarnation can quickly become stale in the hands of lesser artists.

It's good to have fantasies and creative fantasies, especially.

I've never been one of those guys who storyboards every frame, because that would take away some of the mystery and some of the fun.

My mom was an artist, and she had this amazing ability to transform everything into something beautiful.

Even though people think I am more of a conceptual artist, I am actually very intuitive. For me, it is still a matter of allowing things to naturally rise to the top of my mental pile, and then I make them.

In terms of the symbolism, I think that if you do it right, writing is a bit like dreaming.

I was always interested in choreography - in making people think and feel something.