Quotes About Expression

The most loyal and faithful woman indulges her imagination in a hypothetical liaison whenever she dons a new street frock for the first time.

An artist's imagination is his greatest tool

A poor original is better than a good imitation.

To write a song you must have an imagination, to have an imagination you must be free.

My imagination is a kind of animal. So what I do is keep it alive.

Imagination grows by exercise.

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

God has given us our talents, not to copy the talents of others, but rather to use our brains and imagination in order to obtain the revelation of true beauty.

The essence of art is to recapturel the fantasy and the imagination of a child again, but without the innocence of a child.

Where bright imagination reigns, the fine-wrought spirit feels acuter pains.

I think of myself as a songwriter, a weaver of story and imagination in a way that a novelist might write a book.

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

For me, drawing is a way of navigating the imagination and it remains the fundamental vehicle of my practice. Drawing allows me to be at my most inventive.

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 wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

I need paper and pen to release my imagination. I can't create on a machine.

Creative freedom is determined by how we behold the world. Any one of us can make new things with our perceptions that serve as doorways to the creative imagination. No one is excluded.

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

A picture is first of all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy.

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun

The imagination is a palette of bright colors. You can use it to touch up memories — or you can use it to paint dreams.

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that

Authors do not supply imaginations.

It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.