Quotes About Expression

Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.

This is the theater. And this is the best place for the imagination.

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

Painting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world.. ..it must fertilize the imagination.

I like the idea of not being afraid of letting your imagination rule you, to feel the freedom of expression, to let creativity be your overwhelming drive rather than other things.

Art is the colors and textures of your imagination.

One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.

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

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

This world of the imagination is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense.

The elasticity of imagination and compassion is what writing and reading promote.

Go to where the silence is and say something.

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

What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.

Camus says in 'The Stranger' that reason is the enemy of imagination. Sometimes you have to put reason aside and make something beautiful.

The gift of imagination is by no means an exclusive property of the artist; it is a gift we all share; to some degree or other all of us, all of you, are endowed with the powers of fantasy.

I see songwriting as having to do with experience, and the more you've experienced, the better it is. But it has to be tempered, and you just must let your imagination run.

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.

You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.

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.

Art is the imagination at play in the field of time. Let yourself play.

The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.

I dislike frontiers, political or intellectual, and I find that ignoring them is an essential catalyst for creative thought. Ideas should flow without hindrance in their natural course.