Quotes About Interpretation

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.

A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.

Authors do not supply imaginations, they expect their readers to have their own, and to use it

There are a lot of cameramen but not so many photographers. And a lot of cameramen attack from a technical approach without much imagination. They look, but they don't see.

Art is ruled uniquely by the imagination.

Every writer can tell you that a book is only truly alive when it finds passionate readers who bring it alive in their imaginations.

I like photographs which leave something to the imagination.

Art is the expression of imagination, not the reproduction of reality.

I like an empty wall because I can imagine what I like on it.

Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art.

To get such beauty from something that has been produced from the artist's own imagination appealed to me enormously.

Everyone has his own imagination of God. It is best if everyone is left to his own imagination.

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.

If for every error and every act of incompetence one can substitute an act of treason, many points of fascinating interpretation are open to the paranoid imagination.

A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.

But sometimes what we call 'memory' and what we call 'imagination' are not so easily distinguished.

It's essential for us to develop an imagination that is participatory. Art is the primary way in which this happens. It's the primary way in which we become what we see or hear.

If you get an image try to destroy it.

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

Literature speaks the language of the imagination, and the study of literature is supposed to train and improve the imagination.

And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.

I am really the victim of other people's imagination.

I feel like with every character, you try to put yourself in that person's position and just completely use your imagination. That's what I do, at least. Everything is just pretend.

After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination.