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Quotes About Expression

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.
~ Eduard Hanslick
Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage.
~ Timothy Spall
What year is it in your imagination?
~ Lynda Barry, What It Is
The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only you can prevent the genocide of the imagination.
~ Rob Brezsny
The imagination can be dangerous. It can change the world. And that is why we write.
~ Meg Rosoff
I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the outer space of the imagination.
~ Martha Graham
A photographer without imagination is not a good photographer.
~ Graciela Iturbide
I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write. All it needs is imagination.
~ Vikas Swarup
Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.
~ Ansel Adams
Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.
~ Philip José Farmer
Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.
~ Jimi Hendrix
[Great artists] do not copy what they see, but what they desire.
~ Theophile Gautier
Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
~ Walter Darby Bannard
A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.
~ Raymond Carver
An act of imagination is an act of self-acceptance.
~ Richard Hugo
There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.
~ Edward de Bono
A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
~ Ada Louise Huxtable
Try drawing or painting a scene you're working on. Often this will help free up you imagination.
~ Kevin Henkes
Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.
~ Aharon Appelfeld
Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I'm a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion.
~ Peter Sotos
Without freedom, there is no creation.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination
~ Daphne Zuniga
Everyone is a creative agent. ... The tools are your imagination and your imagination is limitless.
~ Oliver Herring