imagination Quotes

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

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 This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.