Peter Sis Quotes

It is no use describing a house; the reader will fix the scene in some spot he knows himself.

The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.

An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.

To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It's just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life.

The thing is that when you don't carry a camera, that's when you see pictures in particular, or at least that's when you think you see pictures in particular. When you do carry it, if you do see one on the occasion that you do, you can take it.

Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.

As long as they're making beloved books into movies, people are going to be like, 'That's not my mental image of them.' It takes that moment for it to click and become their mental image.

I see things with my own eyes, just as if they were the first eyes that ever saw, and then I set about to tell, as best I can, just what I've seen.

The best recording is the one you bring with you in your mind.

I sometimes close my eyes during a show because I have drawn a picture of an audience enjoying the show more on the back of my eyelids.

I can't always reach the image in my mind... almost never, in fact... so that the abstract image I create is not quite there, but it gets to the point where I can leave it.

You have to learn to hallucinate.

Memory is imagination pinned down.

It was the building from the drawing in my brain. And if you don’t think that’s a weird sentence, maybe you should reread it.

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

Love is purely a creation of the human imagination, it is merely perhaps the most important of all the examples of how the imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.

Your imagination creates the inner picture that allows you to participate in the act of creation.

The more we see the more we must be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

I've never really had much of an imagination. But still I would try to picture the exact moment when the beating of my heart would no longer be going on inside my head.

The whole idea is to enable you to see mentally the picture at all hours of the day.

Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.