Quotes About Imagination

The childlike sense of wonder that we had as children, the sense that there is adventure in each activity, is partly what gave us such strong memories when we were young—it's not that we're slipping into dementia.

Nature is far more inventive than is human imagination, and the microscopic world is not what Niels Bohr or anyone else could have guessed.

We might even purposely create time for boredom on a summer day, so they have to go to the garage and see what interesting fun they can have with a pulley, some rope, and a roll of duct tape.

Jumping to conclusions is a safer sport in the world of our imagination than it is in reality.

creativity is associative memory that works exceptionally well.

I understood why films were made, and if they made a lot of money, they were successful. All of these things I knew. As a ten-year-old boy, I didn't really think a lot about finances or celebrity. I always viewed films as kind of what I imagined a summer camp to be like.

The still must tease with the promise of a story the viewer of it itches to be told.

The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.

A viewer's imagination is a powerful storyteller, and can often come up with things way more frightening than what you can explicitly show in a horror movie... try to engage that imagination, and the results can be magical.

Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.

My ideal audience is on the young side, eager to mutate and move to a higher level of consciousness. I want my images to turn the viewer's brain into what it is: a flying carpet.

What intrigues me is making images that confound and confuse the viewer but that the viewer knows, or suspects, really happened.

I didn't watch much television growing up, and before I did 'Boston Legal,' I had no understanding of what it was like for a viewer to look forward to finding out what was going to happen the next week.

My work has threads of ideas from all over the place. I try to crystallise them in something simple and direct that the viewer can then take where they want.

The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer.

It's what you don't see that keeps you on the edge of your seat in any kind of film - leave it to the imagination of the viewer.

You can't create a movie as you think about it. And what's in the scene is not what's being seen. A shot always means something other than what it is. All are vehicles. A landscape is just a vehicle. The viewer might think different things, and I'm not going to intervene.

The problem with shooting in Paris is, it's been shot to death. When you're in it, you already think you're in a movie, so how do you get away from that feeling, and give some frisson to the viewer?

It's not necessary that everything needs to be spoon-fed to the viewer for every story.

I always wish I could just see the 'Stranger Things' from an audience standpoint and not from mine. 'Cause when I watch it, I remember someone was behind there and behind there. I just can't watch it like a viewer. But I love seeing something on paper come to TV.

Ultimately, you have to meet a realistic setting on screen with some imagination as a viewer, as that is what creates a story.

It's weird because when you initially write a song, you write it with no understanding that the world is maybe going to hear it one day. So when you go into the studio, you don't see the hundreds of people at a gig or the viewers on TV, you just write a song without any inhibitions or boundaries.

Anyone can create and put stuff out there, so then as viewers and listeners, we have access to a lot of different unique view points.

When viewers watch shows, they should relate to the story. There has to be a blend between reality and fiction.