Quotes about Imagination
What's in a book is not what the author put into it, it's what the reader gets out of it.
- William Golding
I got vision; the rest of the world is wearing bifocals.
- William Goldman
Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.
- Christina Ricci
I fell asleep reading a dull book, and I dreamed that I was reading on, so I awoke from sheer boredom.
- Heinrich Heine
A pine tree standeth lonely In the North on an upland bare; It standeth whitely shrouded With snow, and sleepeth there. It dreameth of a Palm tree Which far in the East alone, In the mournful silence standeth On its ridge of burning stone.
- Heinrich Heine
There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.
- Henri Matisse
I want to reach that state of condensation of sensations which constitutes a picture.
- Henri Matisse
It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.
- Henri Matisse
Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.
- Henri Matisse
Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while working.
- Henri Matisse
Creativity takes courage
- Henri Matisse
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
- Henry David Thoreau