Top 28 Visual Imagination Quotes
#2. Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.
Robert Doisneau
#3. If you do not have an alert and curious interest in character and dramatic situation, if you have no visual imagination and are unable to distinguish between honest emotional reactions and sentimental approaches to life, you will never write a competent short story.
Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien
#4. I live in words. I like looking at things, but I don't have a strong visual imagination.
Colm Toibin
#5. Well, I have an idea, usually a visual image of some sort. A setting. A particular, I don't know, urban scene, a particular time of day. Something that grips my imagination for some reason.
Philip Pullman
#6. Every day the eye is subject to a thousand tiny shocks as a thousand industries compete for the eye-kick, the visual hook that will lock the consumer into product for that crucial second where the tiny - or not so tiny - leap of the imagination is made.
Graham Joyce
#7. The task of writing a novel is to imagine a world
a world that first exists as a picture before it eventually takes the form of words. Only later do we express through words the picture we imagine, so that readers can share this product of the imagination.
Orhan Pamuk
#8. It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your imagination and make them pop like chestnuts.
Gustave Flaubert
#9. This Divine truth flows into heaven from the Lord from His Divine love.
Emanuel Swedenborg
#10. Man I'm high off life. Fuck it, I'm WASTED
Jay-Z
#11. Constant muscular activity was natural for the child, and, therefore, the immense effort of the drillmaster teachers to make children sit still was harmful and useless.
G. Stanley Hall
#12. Israel is a wonderful place to be an artist - a place where imagination flourishes. Israeli culture is refreshingly avant garde - making films, music, performance art and visual art that continues to push the envelope, inspire and empower.
Ryan Kavanaugh
#13. Communications must destroy localness, by a slow, inevitable process.
John Steinbeck
#14. I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I find in writing. And the other thing is that I don't want to get into someone else's language when I'm working.
Alice Hoffman
#15. Book Buzzed: When you stay up until midnight to finish a book, but then can't fall asleep until 1 a.m. because the story was so amazing.
Jennifer Bardsley
#16. Artistry is the dance of color & form, whether visual, musical, or sparked in the imagination by the written word.
Cathryn Louis
#17. It's always a challenge bringing a great story classic to the screen. Giving visual form to the characters and places that have only existed in the imagination. But it's the kind of challenge we enjoy.
Walt Disney
#18. Hidden away, the people of the streets drift into sleep induced by alcohol or agitated by despair, into dreams that carry them back to the lives that once were theirs.
Will Schwalbe
#19. Words stretch the muscles of the imagination. Continual placid acceptance of ready-made visual images turns the imagination into a couch-potato.
Susan Cooper
#21. I wanted to write something visual that I could read to the children. This was when I created the idea of Redwall Abbey in my imagination. As I wrote, the idea grew, and the manuscript along with it.
Brian Jacques
#22. Six hundred summers, she reflected.Six hundred snowy winters. Thirty-five generations of mortal
humanity. And finally, again ... the sun.
Greg Cox
#23. I wonder what else I could do that I never thought I could.
Wendy Mass
#25. Be men and women with others and for others, real champions in the service of others.
Pope Francis
#26. I do what I love to do, what I choose to do.
Grace Slick
#27. My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical.
Michael Tippett
#28. An idea is our visual reaction to something seen - in real life, in our memory, in our imagination, in our dreams.
Anna Held