Payal Kadakia Quotes

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

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

'The Indian Runner' was easy. It had been incubating in me for eight years, and by the time I sat down to write the thing, I had all the pictures in my head.

If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.

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.

When you're drawing something, you kind of run a movie in your head. You might close your eyes or stare into the distance and kind of see a movie unfolding and, you know, grab a certain moment or think, 'Oh, yeah, that's when we need just the point that he appears around the corner but just as she's getting into the car,' you know?

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

I have a visual imagination.

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

Everything I've written I see in a very precise way and I hear in my inner ear.

I don't tend to cast roles in my head because I spend so much time with these characters and the drawings that they're complete in themselves, you know what I mean?

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

I make up stories in my head all the time, but I've never written them down. But I write a lot of story songs. Any song I'm singing, I sort of see it like a movie in my head. That's why a lot of times I close my eyes when I'm singing.

I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.

My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.

I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.

If I don't have a model in front of me, I don't have an idea.

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.

When I make music and I'm talking on records, it's like I'm painting a picture. In my mind, I'm seeing a film.

It's fun to try and picture what exactly is in your head and translate it onto the screen. How you can take something that lives in my mind and bring it to life - but that part is fun.

You are always drawing from your personal life and using your imagination to fill in the blanks.

The surprising thing was, it's actually easier working on animation than working on a comic strip, because Garfield is animated in my head.

In the same way I accumulate objects, I also accumulate images, and I find them arranging themselves into categories, too. And some images insist on being painted; others don't.

Writing, when it works, one needs to access whatever it is that creates dreams.

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