Imaginative Interpretation Quotes

Poetry is mostly hunches.

I resist the idea that travel writing has got to be factual.

for what is the gift of the poet and the artist except to see the sights which others cannot see and to hear the sounds that others cannot hear?

When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it - or rather, it is like living it. It makes reading so much more exciting, but I don't suppose many people try to do it.

Art should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it.

All fiction comes from a little bit of reality, otherwise it would have no relevance. The fun is in innovation, take something real like this fair, and make it something larger than life.

Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.

Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

I can't be you. You can't be me. You can imagine another well—but never quite perfectly, you know?

Great imaginations are apt to work from hints and suggestions, and a single moment of emotion is sometimes sufficient to create a masterpiece.

This is the highest miracle of genius, that things which are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another.

To start with invention is the mark of the fertile mind ... and leads later to the interpretation of experience; to start with the reproduction of experience is the infallible index of a barren invention.

Imagination, which is a quality writers must have, does not mean the ability to weave pretty stories out of nothing. In the right sense, imagination is a response to what is going on — a sensitiveness to which outside things appeal. It is a composition of sympathy and observation.

perhaps the only magician we have is the artist.

I think a diversity of expression can only be good, so I think the more that people write about their experience, use their imagination to deal with their experience, you know, I think that's going to be good for not only for those authors but also for people who are interested in trying to understand it.

The good thing about being an artist, is it's a legitimate way of looking at things cross-eyed.

Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.

Don't you ever imagine things differently than what they are? Oh, Marilla, how much you miss.

The imagination is both interpretative and creative in nature.

Now, that can be a traditional form or it can be something you're inventing. It can be the development of a metaphor, the working through of a metaphor.

The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.

I never divide photographers into creative and uncreative, I just call them photographers. Who is creative? How do you know who is creative or not?

As an actor, I started using dreams more, which is not mystical or anything like that. I just found that I've been using that as a tool to give me another point of view towards the work. It's often surprising but really helpful.

This, I thought, is how great visionaries and poets see everything- as if for the first time. Each morning they see a new world before their eyes; they do not really see it, they create it.

Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.