Donald O'Connor Quotes

I have a visual imagination.

I have a very vivid imagination.

I'm an artistic kind of person. I draw. I've drawn my whole life. When you have an imaginative mind, I think the artistic form manifests itself in different ways. When I was younger, I used to draw murals for people.

I have to take it as a given that I have got a certain ability to do something. I can be an artist, which is take something and transform it into another thing. I can just see something, and I can see my painting.

I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie.

I'm always seeing stuff and imagining scenes in my head when I'm making music.

Usually I'm able to imagine something and it comes out as I imagined, more or less.

Visualization. It may be the most important part of your mental package.

PAINT THE WALLS OF your mind With many beautiful pictures.

Man lives by imagination.

I've been taking art lessons since I was little, and I've always drawn. I think in pictures.

I was always a visual person. I could see things visually. I had a harder time with numbers and logic, and I always had more of an artistic sensibility. So that I could do. And it was something that I really loved.

I think when I'm drawing, I'm seeing what's happening on the page almost as if it were unfolding like a movie in my head.

I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.

Notebooks allow for all kinds of record-keeping, and I kept one myself as a kid. I was attracted to mixing up words and pictures freely, since that's how I think.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

If you see everything through the lens, you are constantly composing pictures. I think in pictures; I don't think in text.

I have a visual mind, so when I read a book, I get an instant picture in my head and it's very clear.

I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking.

Possessing a healthy imagination is a necessary ingredient for creativity.

Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind. When I work on designing livestock equipment I can test run that equipment in my head like 3-D virtual reality. In fact, when I was in college I used to think that everybody was able to do that.

Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.

I always would dream of making music videos. Whenever I make music, I always have a visual in my mind. I always see things.

I have trouble writing if I can't picture how things are going to look.

I start with an idea in my head. I sketch it out quickly as a line drawing, using pencil. It never comes out quite right - usually a bit better than my mental picture.