Quotes by Imagination Coincidences always happen if you keep your mind open, while storyboards remain the instruments of cowards who do not trust in their own imagination and who are slaves of a matrix If you get used to planning your shots based solely on aesthetics, you are never that far from kitsch. Werner Herzog cowardimaginationmind There are deeper strata of truth in cinema, and there is such a thing as poetic, ecstatic truth. It is mysterious and elusive, and can be reached only through fabrication and imagination and stylization. Werner Herzog mysteriouscinemaimagination I am somebody who creates images, with my perspectives, fascinations and my instincts as a narrator. You have to activate the audience's imagination. If you are just giving them scientific results, they would forget the film in five minutes flat. Werner Herzog perspectiveimaginationgiving I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be. Whoopi Goldberg colorimaginationgrass Imagination guides you in your contacts with individuals and crowds, so you can discover new concepts and approaches. Wilferd Peterson crowdsimaginationart Natural objects themselves, even when they make no claim to beauty, excite the feelings, and occupy the imagination. Nature pleases, attracts, delights, merely because it is nature. We recognize in it an Infinite Power. Wilhelm von Humboldt gardenimaginationfeelings The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon. Will Self horizonlibertyimagination Our imagination and reasoning powers facilitate anxiety; the anxious feeling is precipitated not by an absolute impending threat-such as the worry about an examination, a speech, travel-but rather by the symbolic and often unconscious representations. Willard Gaylin anxietyimaginationworry Imagination, which is a quality writers must have, does not mean the ability to weave pretty stories out of nothing. In the right sense, imagination is a response to what is going on — a sensitiveness to which outside things appeal. It is a composition of sympathy and observation. Willa Cather qualityimaginationmean A pioneer should have imagination, should be able to enjoy the idea of things more than the things themselves. Willa Cather imaginationshould-haveideas The greatest experience I've ever had in a movie theater was watching "Star Wars." It shaped how I look at the world. My imagination was so small before I went in that theater and there was an explosion in my head. I just couldn't figure out how someone came up with it. Will Smith starsimaginationwar I prefer shooting on location, just because it always helps you. You go some place, you put your life on hold even more than when you've settled in some place. You can make a new life so it opens yourself up to the make-believe and the imagination in a way when you aren't burdened by things that remind you of your life all the time. Willem Dafoe new-lifeimaginationbelieve Fools act on imagination without knowledge. Pedants act on knowledge without imagination. William Arthur Ward foolimaginationknowledge The profession of magician, is one of the most perilous and arduous specializations of the imagination. On the one hand there is the hostility of God and the police to be guarded against; on the other it is as difficult as music, as deep as poetry, as ingenious as stage-craft, as nervous as the manufacture of high explosives, and as delicate as the trade in narcotics. William Bolitho policeimaginationhands The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself. William Blake existencestatesimagination There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property. William Blackstone affectionstrikesimagination There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property; or that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe. And yet there are very few, that will give themselves the trouble to consider the original and foundation of this right. William Blackstone imaginationexercisemen In your own bosom you bear your heaven and earth, William Blake shadowimaginationheaven Work up imagination to the state of vision. William Blake visionstatesimagination If you cannot imagine with the mind's eye much more than you can see with the mortal eye, you have a very poor imagination indeed. William Blake eyeimaginationmind«159160161162163164165166167168169»
