Imagination Quotes
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In acting, every day is different, and I guess it appeals to my storytelling imagination. But I've been very fortunate to get the chance to do what I want to do and earn a living from it to pay the mortgage.
Emilia Fox
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The power of imagination is infinite.
John Tiffany
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I go to the theater and dream. You learn your lines, and that gives you the security to allow the imagination and heart to come out.
Jason Robards
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My favorite action movie growing up was 'Supergirl.' It wasn't good by any stretch of the imagination, but it was my favorite because I wanted to be her. I have a Supergirl tattoo.
Adrianne Palicki
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So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.
Diana Krall
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If I tell the audience what they should think, then I am robbing them of their own imagination and their own capacity of deciding what's important to them.
Michael Haneke
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A man's life is colored by the dye of his imagination.
Louis Nizer
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In this drawing we just let our imagination run wild. We visualized Superman toys, games, and a radio show - that was before TV - and Superman movies. We even visualized Superman billboards. And it's all come true.
Joe Shuster
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That's why I love being a writer. My imagination can take me places I may never see except in my mind's eye.
Pearl Cleage
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I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.
Beverly Cleary
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Woman is the sun, an extraordinary creature, one that makes the imagination gallop.
Marcello Mastroianni
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Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.
Mason Cooley
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I feel like 'Amelie' is very much an extension of me. She's a contemporary woman who sees the world through her imagination.
Phillipa Soo
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I guess something that I've noticed from American acts who had success in touring is more of an explanation as to their music. Which is I think quite funny. I think British acts might like to leave more to the imagination - maybe a bit more obscure perhaps - a bit more shy.
Ben Lovett Mumford & Sons
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I always ask the booksellers to look at me and recommend a book; 9 out of 10, they get it right; it’s usually a book about someone dysfunctional. To me bookstores are like brothels of imagination, each book is luring me over going, 'Read me, read me'.
Ruby Wax
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I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all things in a phrase, all existence in an epigram: whatever I touched I made beautiful.
Oscar Wilde
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My mother always cultivated my imagination from the time I was very little.
Alden Ehrenreich
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Success is based on imagination plus ambition and the will to work.
Thomas A. Edison
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Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.
Francis Bacon
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Sara Blair's Harlem Crossroads is an important addition to the body of literature that currently exists about Harlem. It brilliantly illuminates the complex relationship between photographic representation and race, and adds new insight into the ways in which this one black community has figured in both the critical and public imaginations. Harlem Crossroads is a tour de force.
Dawoud Bey
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As an actor you have to have a strong vivid imagination as you're working and when the camera's rolling, but there's certainly a part of you that is aware of real life, that you're making a movie.
John Hawkes
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The imagination is both interpretative and creative in nature.
Napoleon Hill
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Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.
Jonas Salk
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People know that they're going to see something which is entertaining but challenging as well because of the form it's in. It's dance theatre and it requires you to use your imagination - it's not straight forward.
Matthew Bourne