Quotes About Imagination

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his own personality.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan.

Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.

There has never been a great film unless it was created in the spirit of the experimental filmmaker.

Great literature, if we read it well, opens us up to the world and makes us more sensitive to it, as if we acquired eyes that could see through things and ears that could hear smaller sounds.

One of the great things about songwrighting; it's not an intellectual experience

The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.

Do not be afraid to dream great things!

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

Imagination magnifies small objects with fantastic exaggeration until they fill our soul, and with bold insolence cuts down great things to its own size, as when speaking of God.

As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I saw in my head or I had designed on storyboards and capturing that on film.

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Books make great gifts because they're everybody's favorite things.

Great art changes you.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.

I was thinking one of the great things about fiction is we, as a race, only get to look out of our own eyes at the world. And fiction is a fantastic way of looking out through somebody else's eyes.

The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.

There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.

The interpretation of dreams is a great art.

I was a great dreamer of day dreams.

There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit