Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Auerbach

To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination.

Christian Morgenstern

Chess truly uncovers whether or not someone has imagination and takes initiative.

Chris Wooding

Imagination is as close as we will ever be to godhead . . . for in imagination, we can create wonders.

George Steiner

Increasingly unable to create for itself a relevant body of myth, the modern imagination will ransack the treasure house of the classic.

George Soros

Merkel has realized that the euro is not working, but she cannot change the narrative she has created because that narrative has caught the imagination of the German public, and the German public has accepted it.

Fernando Pessoa

Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination.

Federico Fellini

Peellaert's comic strips were the literature of intelligence, imagination and romanticism.

Federico Fellini

The picture is in your head, in your imagination, everything.

Fay Godwin

I like photographs which leave something to the imagination.

Ezra Pound

It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in suspense or reserved. This hypothesis would explain the enormous content of the brain as a maker or presenter of images.

Francis Bacon

The human understanding is moved by those things most which strike and enter the mind simultaneously and suddenly, and so fill the imagination; and then it feigns and supposes all other things to be somehow, though it cannot see how, similar to those few things by which it is surrounded.

Henri Bergson

You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.

George Eliot

The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in ways that we are unable to devise for them.

Jill Clayburgh

takes a lot of imagination, and frankly, my imagination was pretty much absorbed by my children.

Paracelsus

Then their imagination could work wonders upon wonders and invoke the shades of the philosophers, who would instruct them in their art.

It is our imagination that transforms itself into reality, through our physical strength and endeavours.

Matt Reeves

It's the idea that anticipation is as scary as anything in a movie could be. People's imagination is the most effective tool in creating terror or dread.

Jane Levy

Your imagination is your most important tool, as an actor, as cheesy as that sounds.

Ethan Hawke

Well, there's a great Marlon Brando quote that to do something well you have to spiritually marry your director. You have to be making the same movie they are in that you have to try to help their imagination be better, and more full, and more fully realized, but you can't have a different imagination because then you end up - and you see this a lot in movies - where it feels like they were making five different films.

Ernest Dimnet

Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience.

Ewan McGregor

Everything you do on set is directly related to your imagination when you read the script for the first time.

Muriel Rukeyser

Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling . . .. A fine poem will seize your imagination intellectually-that is, when you reach it, you will reach it intellectually too- but the way is through emotion, through what we call feeling.

Mo Rocca

A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur; that the computer mouse is a hotrod; that the box is a cave; that the rawhide is a torch... or a baton... or something.

Jim Butcher

Magic is a kind of energy. It is given shape by human thoughts and emotions, by imagination. Thoughts define that shape—and words help to define those thoughts. That’s why wizards usually use words to help them with their spells. Words provide a sort of insulation as the energy of magic burns through a spell caster’s mind.

Jesse Ventura

I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination.

H. P. Lovecraft

The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life.

Jay McInerney

Mine is not an autonomous imagination.

Bryan Cranston

The imagination is part of the arsenal that actors draw from.

James Hillman

Of course, a culture as manically and massively materialistic as ours creates materialistic behavior in its people, especially in those people who've been subjected to nothing but the destruction of imagination that this culture calls education, the destruction of autonomy it calls work, and the destruction of activity it calls entertainment.

Ken Adam

The cinema is there to heighten the imagination; I have always tried to make sure it does so.

Katherine Paterson

If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?

Keri Russell

Voiceover work definitely requires it's own specific muscle. And because you're not seeing what you're recording, and all these things are going on, you really have to use your imagination and stay focused and kind of be able to tap your head and rub your belly at the same time.

For now, unfortunately, we're going to leave that up to your imagination.