imagination Quotes

In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare's plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it.

We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.

The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects - things as they were or are, things as they are said or thought to be, or things as they ought to be. The vehicle of expression is language - either current terms or, it may be, rare words or metaphors.

You have to think anyway, so why not think big?

As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big.

I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.

Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.

Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.