Quotes About Expression

The story must spring from an impression or perception pressing enough to have made the writer write. It should magnetize the imagination and give pleasure.

Imagination is a gift given to us from God and each one of us use it differently.

The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.

I'm a slave to my imagination in terms of making narrative films.

Shame can kill the imagination. It's hard to keep writing in the face of cultural derision.

Your imagination is your most important tool, as an actor, as cheesy as that sounds.

Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine.

The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas.

Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination.

Not till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination"-above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads in them." shall we have it.

The only realism in art is of the imagination.

The inhibitor of creativity isn't potential it's fear. We worry about saying the wrong thing or looking foolish so we govern our imagination.

An imaginative adventure does not enjoy the same corsets as reportage.

The Christian should be the person who is alive, whose imagination absolutely boils, which moves, which produces something a bit different from God's world because God made us to be creative.

The freedom of personal expression, ideas and imagination, working in collaboration with people from diverse backgrounds - is what's needed to spawn creativity.

One function of the imagination in autobiographical writing is to allow the writer to try out different versions of the self.

I think acting is a mixture of instinct, imagination and inventiveness. All you can learn as an actor is basic technique.

Music gives wings to the mind and flight to the imagination.

What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.

I think that is the secret of great acting. You have to bring your imagination to the party. You've got to have a great imagination.

The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.

To be an actor or actress, you have to feel on a deep level and tap into emotions that you've never felt before. You're imagining how something would feel. You have to use your imagination so much.

I'll not punish you for having an imagination.

Personally there is first: imagination; second: the act of writing - and third: the act/act of vocalizing.