Louis Nizer Quotes

Christ, what an imagination I've got!

Imagination is the beginning of reality.

Don't think it, ink it.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.

The longer I look at something, the more my imagination churns and I can find somewhere to put it.

It is popular to believe that in order to see clearly one must believe nothing. This may work well enough if you are observing cells under a microscope. It will not work if you are writing fiction. For the fiction writer, to believe nothing is to see nothing.

Imagination is a form of seeing

There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.

Imagination is the power of the mind over the possibilities of things.

Dill was off again. Beautiful things floated around in his dreamy head. He could read two books to my one, but he preferred the magic of his own inventions. He could add and subtract faster than lightning, but he preferred his own twilight world, a world where babies slept, waiting to be gathered like morning lilies.

My work is about seeing - seeing things like they haven't been seen before.

The imagination demands that life be told slant because of its need of distance.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

We cannot create what we can't imagine.

The picture is in your head, in your imagination, everything.

The imagination is the workshop of the soul, where are shaped all the plans for individual achievement.

We have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.

Whatever colors you have in your mind, I'll show them to you and you'll see them shine.

Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.

That's my job. To imagine harder than you can.

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

I have a lot of fantasy.