Mini Grey Quotes

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

I have a very vivid imagination.

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.

The creative process for me doesn't work as well without an image of an audience in mind.

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

I love bringing the inanimate object to life.

An artist sees that which does not yet exist. He or she imagines a future others cannot perceive. The artist - and the writer - reshapes reality so that it becomes even more vivid and lasting.

Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.

We all live best in our imaginations.

Daydream, imagine, and reflect. It’s the source of infinite creativity.

That's my job. To imagine harder than you can.

Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration. The fresh piece of paper on the drawing board is as blank as the newly stretched piece of canvas.

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

I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece.

I get lost in my right brain, especially in creative things.

Being on a trapeze is like dreaming. I feel totally outside of myself when I'm flying. You know, designing shoes, my imagination is flying in my drawings.

I'm useless at staring at a piece of white paper. But if you put a piece of white paper with a black line on it in front of me, I'll say no that black line should be red and it should go this way or that way.

I go into meetings with some film-makers and they literally have nothing to say, they're almost bored by their own material. I'd rather work with people who are very passionate and very animated about what they want to do. People who just want to tell stories.

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

I think that everything is part of creativity - the more you create, the more you have ideas, and the more you meet people.

I really like dating stories, like in Betty and Veronica comics; I like David Lynch and H.P. Lovecraft for the dark gut-wrenching stuff, and I'm inspired by Miyazaki's films for the subtle heart-warming moments, as well as the moments that blew up my imagination.

I loved the world of imagination.

I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.

When I was a kid, I was always going to bed creating a story, and that was the birth of filmmaking for me. I would like going to the dream-state by telling the story to someone else in my mind. That was my imaginary friend; it was an imaginary audience listening to my story.

Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither.