Ludivine Sagnier Quotes

How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.

The theater of the mind is impossible to compete with, and I like the idea that with a few suggestions, each reader forms in his or her own mind what a character or a place looks like.

I kind of write in my own little world.

The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.

A poet is a world enclosed in a man.

Personally I kept my feelings out of it and created a fantasy. That's the process of going through this world being beautiful.

In the world of the imagination, anything goes that's imaginatively possible, but nothing really happens.

My imagination is a kind of animal. So what I do is keep it alive.

I live in a world all my own, but visitors are always welcome.

There are images I need to complete my own reality.

I've always written songs with a visual counterpart in my mind that no one else can see.

When you write, you want to get rid of the world, don’t you? Of course you do. When you’re writing, you’re creating your own worlds.

I mainly let my imagination be my reality. Fantasy is my reality.

Being on set and seeing all that green screen, and how it activated my imagination, was amazing to me. I fell into that world very easily, and it was incredible to be a part of.

I believe that fantasy in the meaning of imagination is very important. We shouldn't stick too close to everyday reality but give room to the reality of the heart, of the mind, and of the imagination.

The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let us spend our lives in conceiving then. The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at least could accomplish it.

Imagination seems to be a glory and a misery, a blessing and a curse. Adam, to his sorrow, lacked it. Eve, to her sorrow, possessed it. Had both been blessed - or cursed - with it, there would have been much keener competition for the apple.

You have to be free to play around with the notion that day might be night, love might be hate; nothing can be too sacred for the imagination to turn into its opposite or to call experimentally by another name. For writing is re-naming.

Words in the mind are like colors on the palette of the artist. The more colors we have access to, the easier it is to create a captivating picture on the canvas, and the more practice we give to using those many colors appropriately and uniquely, the more likely we will be to create a masterpiece of self expression.

He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments, and in stronger and better light than his perishing and mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all.

The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.

It's [music composition] the most effortless thing in the world because you don't do anything. I hate to say it like that, but it's the truth.

A lot of my songs are fantasy. I can dream up all kinds of things. That's the kind of world I live in. It's very sort of flamboyant, and that's the kind of way I write. I love it

Probably the most potent desire for a painter, an image-maker, is to see it. To see what the mind can think and imagine, to realize it for oneself, through oneself, as concretely as possible.