Quotes About Expression

We do live, all of us, on many different levels, and for most artists the world of imagination is more real than the world of the kitchen sink.

Art degraded, Imagination denied.

You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.

Art is the manipulation of someone else's imagination.

Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.

Filmmaking is like playing in your imagination and getting paid to do it. I guess I'll ride this horse until it bucks me.

The solitude of the poet is the uniqueness of his experience, and the particulaity of his sensitivity and imagination.

With music and art, I can create the kind of world in which I wish to live.

I think often in film we limit our imaginations a little - well, quite a lot, actually things get quite formulaic.

A painting is above all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy. If, at a later stage, he wants to add two or three touches from nature, of course it doesn't spoil anything.

I had a pretty sexual imagination for a kid.

Artistic imagination must remain free. It is by definition free from any fidelity to circumstances, especially to the intoxicating circumstances of history.

I have an active imagination, and music opens the floodgates of that area of my brain.

I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember.

What we call music is what reminds us of ourselves. And sometimes electronic music helps lead the imagination to a space that seems outside of ourselves. But it never really is.

Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it's not relating in prose what you've been doing for the last two or three years.

It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginations. It really makes me angry.

Anyone with an imagination can write about the day-to-day experiences of someone he or she is not.

I have a recurring fantasy that one more article has been added to the Bill of Rights: the right to free access to imagination.

All of us, writers and non-writers alike, have incredible well-springs of personal experience and history. And we also have imagination - which I think is a kind of human miracle.

The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.

I'm kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There were some books that even copied the stamp. It shows so little imagination.

Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage.

If you don't have imagination you're lost. But it's a virtue that's becoming increasingly rare, especially in its higher form: spontaneity. Mad, happy spontaneity.