Dirk Bogarde Quotes

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

The soul never thinks without a picture.

Imagination is a form of seeing

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

Modeling isn't boring.

Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.

Everything you can imagine is real.

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Modern technology has taken the angst out of achieving the perfect shot. For me, the only thing that counts is the idea behind the image: what you want to see and what you're trying to say. The idea is crucial. You have to think of something you want to say and expand upon it.

I have a visual mind, so when I read a book, I get an instant picture in my head and it's very clear.

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

I love photography, and I love the art of photography.

I have a vision of life, and I try to find equivalents for it in the form of photographs.

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.

Man can no more think without words than see without light.

Photography is a big part of my life: taking photographs, being around photographers.

I don't paint, and I can't draw, but I see things, I think, quite well, and I love being able to freeze things with the camera, particularly the children. Then I discovered with the camera that you can tell a whole story with just freezing a moment in reality. I find it a very good way, a very satisfying feeling.

You put your camera around your neck along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you. The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

Imagination is the will of things. . . .

We see with the eyes, but we see with the brain as well. And seeing with the brain is often called imagination.

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

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.

The camera gives you some control.

Leica, schmeica. The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But you have to see.