Imagination

I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or profile a subject – skills that I assumed would be useless when it came to fiction. It was from my imagination that the characters in my story would emerge. – Amy Waldman

Although Bill Finger literally typed the scripts in the early days, he wrote the scripts from ideas that we mutually collaborated on. Many of the unique concepts and story twists also came from my own fertile imagination. – Bob Kane

Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels. – Luigi Pirandello

When you are young your imagination is so clear. – Nina Blackwood

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination. – Eduard Hanslick

I love costumes. I love getting dressed up because it really helps my imagination make the leap to believe that I am who I say I am. – Alessandro Nivola

She has no imagination and that means no compassion. – Michael Foot

To them though, not to us, we were just a catalyst for their imagination. – Donald Sutherland

I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination. – Daphne Zuniga

Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment. – William Warburton

If there is a book that the script came from you have to read it, you have to see what you can get out of it: mood, back story and things that may not even be in the film. They kick off your imagination and broaden the character, I think. – Miranda Otto

Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers. – Les Baxter

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother? – Ernst Toller

I was brought up in a very open, rural countryside in the middle of nowhere. There were no cell phones. If your lights went out, you were lit by candlelight for a good four days before they can get to you. And so, my imagination was crazy. – Juno Temple

I like photographs which leave something to the imagination. – Fay Godwin

As an actor I think sometimes producers need a little bit of encouragement to see you in a particular role, they may not have as much imagination as you would expect. – Steve Kanaly

Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil. – Charlotte Perkins Gilman

It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination. – Robert South

My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner. – Andre Dubus III

There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination. – Leigh Hunt