Bob Hoskins Quotes

Imagination is a form of seeing

The gift of imagination is by no means an exclusive property of the artist; it is a gift we all share; to some degree or other all of us, all of you, are endowed with the powers of fantasy.

Dream strange things and make them look like truth.

The imagination is not the consolation people pretend. It can even be regarded as the admission of some sort of failure.

Imagination comes in after we have experience.

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

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.

To say that a writer's hold on reality is tenuous is an understatement-it's like saying the Titanic had a rough crossing. Writer's build their own realities, move into them and occasionally send letters home. The only difference between a writer and a crazy person is that a writer gets paid for it.

How do you visualize something you've never seen and just imagined, through someone you love very much?

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.

The camera can photograph thought.

The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.

Well, I'll say I have an incredible ability to fantasize - I really do. I don't have to have things tangible to be able to see them, and therefore I enjoy so many things, because they're in my mind.

The soul never thinks without a picture.

I'm not saying I talk to cartoon characters all the time, but the characters are very real to me. In a very non-insane way.

I think your imagination is your reality

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

Imagination is strong in a man when that particular function of the brain which enables him to observe is roused to activity without any necessary excitement of the sense. Accordingly, we find that imagination is active just in proportion as our sense are not excited by external objects. A long period of solitude, whether in prison or in a sick room; quiet, twilight, darkness-these are the things that promote its activity; and under their influence it comes into play of itself.

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

A great deal of phenomenal experience has fostered in me a flexibility of the mind and imagination that some might call madness

Why do I have this imagination? It's the only one I've got!

If you can imagine a thing, conjure it up in space then you can make it... The universe is real but you can't see it. You have to imagine it. Then you can be realistic about reproducing it.

Mere imagination would indeed be mere trifling; only no imagination is mere .