Alex Breckenridge Quotes

Everyone reads the same words in a book but has a very clear picture of their own.

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

An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.

Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither.

Every time I read a script, I see the movie in my head, and I try to see the best movie in my head because everybody interprets the movie differently.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery.

There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world inside our mind, which is just as important.

Everybody has their thing they like or don't like to see. It's all in your head. That's why people take their own pictures, because it's difficult for someone else to capture what you seek.

I am interested in relating the things we see with the things we see with our eyes closed.

Imagination is a form of seeing

Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.

The facts, even the real ones, must be imagined before they can be stated.

Radio is truly the theater of the mind. The listener constructs the sets, colors them from his own palette, and sculpts and costumes the characters who perform in them.

It's like when you read a book and you know that the words are important, but the images blossoming in your imagination are even more important because it's your mind that allows the words to come to life.

Imagination comes from yourself and can deceive you, but vision is a gift from outside yourself - like light striking on your closed eyelids and lifting them to see what's really there.

I'm very interested in the question of how we perceive something, how consciousness goes from one thing, like looking at you in your black hat to what it might mean to my imagination and how I would draw that or write that, how I would subjectify you? It's something that is endlessly interesting to me.

The story itself, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds, guided and shaped by my text, but then transformed, elucidated, expanded, edited, and clarified by their own experience, their own desires, their own hopes and fears.

But when reflexion begins to play upon these objects... like some trick of magic each object is loosed into a group of impressions - colour, odour, texture... And if we continue to dwell in thought on this world... the whole scope of observation is dwarfed into the narrow chamber of the individual mind.

Imagination is a powerful force underlying all knowing

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

The inner eye does not see upon command.

We forget that the world is what we imagine it to be. We stop being the sun and become, instead, the pool of water reflecting it.

Much of what we see in the universe ... starts out as imaginary. Often you must imagine something before you can come to terms with it.