Quotes About Imagination

Boeken zijn de beste middelen - privé, discreet, betrouwbaar - om over de werkelijkheid heen te stappen.

Direi una chiarezza sbalorditiva, una consapevolezza piú profonda di me stessa. L'imperfezione dà lo spunto all'invenzione, all'immaginazione, alla creatività. Stimola. Più mi sento imperfetta, più mi sento viva.

That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.

there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.

I libri sono i mezzi migliori - privati, discreti, affidabili - per scavalcare la realtà.

She has never read any Gogol herself, but she is willing to place him on a shelf in her mind, along with Tennyson and Wordsworth

That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet. Jhumpa Lahiri

A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished' work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.

Great works of the imagination are not produced quickly nor do they take quick effect on the popular mind.

Fiction begins with the senses, and the senses go to work in a place.

I use a wide selection of colours. It is impossible to produce work like mine using only the primary colours as they only mix a certain range of colour.

My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up surrounded by paintings, paints, easels and art books does have an effect.

I use about 20 different colours to retain the luminance in my work.

The artist himself is often surprised at the finished work of art. He cannot tell 'how it happened', nor could he repeat the feat at someone's bidding.

So, I don't work in terms of real time. I don't work in a timely fashion.

The creative process is different from the traditional production and work-flow process. It is not so linear.

I carry out my work thus: I never use models or nature for the figure, drapery or anything else.

Nell Zink is a writer of extraordinary talent and range. Her work insistently raises the possibility that the world is larger and stranger than the world you think you know.

If you want to burrow a message into a human mind. Work it into a story

Jed Perl writes precisely and ecstatically. Antoine' s Alphabet is a history and a fairy tale, a work of criticism, and a work of art.

As a fiction writer, of course, you need to take some leeway with certain aspects of history to make the story work.

My daily surroundings feed my work, whether it's something I'm working on right now or it's something down the road.

I believe that poets have to be inside their poems somewhere, or the poem won't work.

I work out the other bits, too, but I need to know what I look like, very early on. And then it's like a template; I'll fill that person out. If I get that out of the way, then I'm all right.