There have been many different artists that have been inspirational. I suppose the question is directed to what was the reason why I went into fantasy illustration.

To think and to feel constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

For some reason I can't explain artist and musicians tend to look younger than our age. Being in music you need this youthful sense of discovery and wonder for what you're doing and keep your imagination open. That's a youthful way of looking at life and I think that reflects in how you age.

One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical reasonable leap.

Talent lying in the understanding is often inherited genius being the action of reason or imagination rarely or never.

Reason respects the differences and imagination the similitudes of things.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination rarely.

Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning.

The President has a wonderful sense of humor which is one of the reasons it is so much fun to work for him.

Men will confess to treason murder arson false teeth or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions but the humor process is involved in changing them.

A lot of people into Tool for some reason are not interested in humor.

It is quite true as some poets said that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor creating him a reasonable being yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.

Humor is reason gone mad.

I hope I'm in a position to make stuff that I really want to make as opposed to stuff that I just have to make for money reasons or to sustain a certain marquee value.

We are all here to be a service to those who can't be a service to themselves. We can give people hope and more reasons for being human.

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope that foul deceitful thing has no part in it.

The climate the economic situation rising birth rates none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic.

The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.

All the interests of my reason speculative as well as practical combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.

He's a good tough producer yes. But I don't think that he's unreasonable unless he feels threatened. And when somebody's in your home I think everybody in the home gets threatened.

I am reasonably happy. I didn't find Jesus or anything like that. Part of it is that I just feel that I could go home. I did not feel like that for a long time but I could go back now.