Russell Page Quotes

What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental squint.

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

I really value words. I really try to illustrate and let people draw their own conclusions.

In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on.

I am always looking for that nuance, that moment of truth, and you can't really do that fast.

When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

In my writing, I focus lenses. I'm almost always seeing when I am writing.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

I enjoy looking beyond the obvious and look at the stories happening all around me - you kind of formulate things in your mind and get excited about them.

A hair divides what is false and true.

Vision is perhaps our greatest strength... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.

Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.

I'm not such a fan of imagination. If you're alive to details, they oftentimes suggest a richer or deeper imaginative line than you would have imagined.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

The thing I don't want to do as a film composer is reiterate. I prefer to subtextualize or to underline rather than to say, 'This is what you should be feeling.'

Audiences are smart, and they don't need to be spoon-fed everything.

I don't want to lose too much of the mystery by hammering every detail to death.

A true masterpiece does not tell everything.

The highest exercise of imagination is not to devise what has no existence, but rather to perceive what really exists, though unseen by the outward eye-not creation, but insight.

Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others.

I had to learn that a good actor, like an iceberg, reveals only a small part of his ability on the surface. You suggest; you don't serve on a platter. You hold back. You don't expose it all to view. That's the way to put the audience's imagination to work.

Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark.

the inferred is always more effective than the obvious.