Frances Bean Cobain Quotes

Most children tell themselves stories in which they figure as powerful figures, enjoying the pleasures not only of the adult world as they conceive it but of a world of wonders unlike dull reality.

I mainly let my imagination be my reality. Fantasy is my reality.

Gilligan's Island is wherever you want it to be in your mind.

I put myself into another world and another identity, and I design not for how my life is but for how my imaginary life is.

The interesting part about being an artist is that the ways in which you express yourself are not always readily available.

My pictures are about getting as far away from reality as possible. Dreams should be part of our everyday life.

I'm creating an imaginary — it's always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.

Might we not say that every child at play behaves like a creative writer, in that he creates a world of his own, or, rather, rearranges the things of his world in a new way which pleases him?

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather be in.

With my writing, I can still play inside an enchanted castle or live inside an old fort. I can run from ghosts or ride dolphins any day of the week.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

I've always been more of a camera hog than anything, and it's just another way to get it all out!

I like to write about things that don't reflect exactly on my life.

As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you give everybody a blank canvas and some paint, not everybody's picture is going to be exactly the same, but it's still art. I just do what I do.

I'm hardly digging trenches for a living. I'm getting to tap into my boyhood fantasies of being a larger-than-life character.

The main impetus for being a writer is thinking, 'I could invent another world. I'm not terribly keen on this one.'

I got into acting to avoid politics of any sort so I could remain in a fantasy world.

I just wanted to live in books and in movies.

Film sets are constantly amusing because you really are creating something that is so very surreal, and I kind of like that.

I always liked the idea that you can put something in you onto a canvas or a piece of paper and have it exist there and not inside you. It's a way to control things.

Drawing was a cheap way for me to express myself. It gave a focus to my thinking and my life from a very early age.

Writing has always been an incredible outlet for me to feel like I have a voice, even when sometimes I was the only one reading my work. It has been a way for me to unlock my imagination. That's when the world becomes yours, after all.

I've always been the person who has needed a creative outlet.

Oftentimes, my career as a model is based around glamour or creating a fantasy world. That in itself is not a bad thing, as I think art and inspiration has its place in society.

The great thing about writing is, if you don't like the world, we'll create a different one.