Jerry Saltz Quotes

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

Corporate America limits the world to consumerism. Science can limit it to the material world. Even religion limits it to a lot of theories that can explain everything. I think we need cinema to break that apart and remind us that we're not in control, and we don't understand as much as we think do.

You ride astride the imaginary in order to hunt down the real.

Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison. I am near, too near for him to dream of me.

I try to find the picture, not create it.

Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It's the only space.

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

It's a strange world. Let's keep it that way.

Everything you can imagine is real.

To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.

Reality can be elastic, and I want to see how elastic it can be, you know?

Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on earth.

We live in worlds that we have forged and composed. It's much more true than any of the species that you see. I mean, it seems to me that one of the most distinctive features of human intelligence is the capacity to imagine, to project out of our own immediate circumstances and to bring to mind things that aren't present here and now.

Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

Everything that you can imagine is going on is going on.

You never know what you're going to end up with when you sit down to write something. At the end, if it holds, it can do this multifarious thing - which is to open things rather than close them, to make them bigger rather than smaller, to cross those divides which we live every day of our lives.

It is only unimaginative persons who can be really astonished. The imagination can always outrun the possible and actual sights and sounds of the world.

There is no reason why you should be bored when you can be otherwise. But if you find yourself sitting in the hedgerow with nothing but weeds, there is no reason for shutting your eyes and seeing nothing, instead of finding what beauty you may in the weeds. To put it cynically, life is too short to waste it in drawing blanks. Therefore, it is up to you to find as many pictures to put on your blank pages as possible.

Once, the world was full of mysteries, some of them frightening, some of them wonderful, some of them merely fascinating. Now, it can be a banal and predictable place, the tracks of daily life so well-beaten and defined, our culture awash with the imbecile obvious, our existence suffocating in safety. But mysteries remain.

Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.

It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?

No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.

The future isn't just a place you'll go. It's a place you will invent.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.