Imagination Quotes - Page 61

If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob, what need do you have for a 'movie version' of a novel?

Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They are always wooing goddesses, and marrying mere mortals.

Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.

It's always a challenge bringing a great story classic to the screen. Giving visual form to the characters and places that have only existed in the imagination. But it's the kind of challenge we enjoy.

What seems real to the mind can be as important as any material fact. We live by the spirit and the imagination as well as by our senses. Cartoon animation can give fantasy the same reality as those things we can touch and see and hear.

in the presence of extraordinary actuality, consciousness takes the place of imagination.

The imagination is the liberty of the mind It is intrpeid and eager and the extreme of its achievement lies in abstraction.

I tell my students one of the most important things they need to know is when they are at their best, creatively. They need to ask themselves, What does the ideal room look like? Is there music? Is there silence? Is there chaos outside or is there serenity outside? What do I need in order to release my imagination?

Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

Pop music can get inside us and enter our memory bubbles. It provides those true Proustian moments, unlocking sensations, unlocking our imaginations. Music inspired me as a filmmaker.

if something is perfect, then there is nothing left,there is no for imagination, no place left for a person to gain additional knowledge or abilities

The story of Jesus Christ appearing after he was dead is the story of an apparition, such as timid imaginations can always create in vision, and credulity believe. Stories of this kind had been told of the assassination of Julius Caesar.

The imagination should be allowed a certain amount of time to browse around.

Imagination has the creative task of making symbols, joining things together in such a way that they throw new light on each other and on everything around them. The imagination is a discovering faculty, a faculty for seeing relationships, for seeing meanings that are special and even quite new.

For after the subject is removed or the eye shut, we still retain an image of the things seen, though more obscure than when we see it...Imagination, therefore, is nothing more than decaying sense.

This is the highest miracle of genius, that things which are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another.

Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularity is indispensable to the creations of the imagination.

[Great artists] do not copy what they see, but what they desire.

The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas.

Can we only love Something created in our own imaginations?

Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology.

Experiences aren't pornographic; only images and representations - structures of the imagination - are.

I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack.

... a lively imagination can exercise itself most fully and creatively in conjuring up magnificent combinations.

Poetry must speak of others, in order to speak for the poet's imagination, in order to speak of itself; it is slowed down by poetics after its flight is over.