People Quotes

So often, science fiction helps to get young people interested in science. That's why I don't mind talking about science fiction. It has a real role to play: to seize the imagination.

~ Michio Kaku

I'm essentially the result of other people's imagination. And that's fine. Because of other people's imagination, I've played parts I would never have thought I could do. Still, I've never had a hankering or an ambition for any particular role.

~ John Hurt

I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular.

~ Seamus Heaney

I don't want to discredit people's individuality, but I think people are pretty much the same. People are very similar. If you have a good enough imagination then you can feel things that you personally have never done before. That's acting.

~ Kristen Stewart

A lot of things that I write about have happened to people around me, if not necessarily to me or in the organizations I've worked in. Having said that, it's fiction and has a lot to do with my imagination and creativity.

~ Ravi Subramanian

A-POC unleashes the freedom of imagination. It's for people who are curious, who have inner energy - the energy of life and living.

~ Issey Miyake

I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it's not imagination. It's just a way of watching.

~ Haruki Murakami

Poetry can do a lot of things to people. I mean it can improve your imagination. It can take you to new places. It can give you this incredible form of verbal pleasure.

~ Billy Collins

I'm nosey, and I have a great imagination. So it's not necessarily things I have to go through, but it's things people I know or my family is going through, and I hear about it, and I think, 'That sounds like a great song.'

~ Becky G

The most important innovators often don't need any technologies - just imagination and acute sensitivity to people's needs.

~ Geoff Mulgan

It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.

~ Jack Nicholson

I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.

~ J. G. Ballard

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.

~ Georg C. Lichtenberg

People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.

~ Bodhidharma

You can have 10 bucks to 10 million bucks and if you got a crew, imagination and a lot of people willing to turn in some work next to nothing, you going to have a feature. But you can't get beyond how expensive marketing the movie is, it's so crushing.

~ Kevin Smith

When you are a people's movement, you have one thing. Your only asset is people. And you have to deal with real people. Not the people of your imagination. Not the people you wish people would be. But people as they exist actually out there in the real world.

~ Norman Finkelstein

Only World War II, which mobilized 10 million draftees, could by any stretch of the imagination be called a people's war.

~ John Gregory Dunne

I ask questions. I watch the world. And what I have discovered is that the parts of my fiction that people most tell me are 'unbelievable' are those that are most closely based on the real, those least diluted by my imagination.

~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I feel very giddy with the idea of making my imagination take form and being able to put on a show where people leave feeling like they've experienced something.

~ Carly Rae Jepsen

But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.

~ Roger Mcguinn

I have a darker imagination than most people.

~ Edan Lepucki

Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.

~ Robert Doisneau

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.

~ Will Rogers

Inspiration comes from everywhere: books, art, people on the street. It is an interior process for me.

~ Colleen Atwood

A museum is a spiritual place. People lower their voices when they get close to art.

~ Mario Botta

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.

~ Jawaharlal Nehru

In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised.

~ Frank Ocean

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

~ Steve Martin

People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.

~ Claude Monet

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

~ Jonathan Swift

If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?

~ Ai Weiwei

That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.

~ Corita Kent

Art's a very metaphysical activity. It's something that enriches the parameters of your life, the possibilities of being, and you touch transcendence and you change your life. And you want to change the life of others, too. That's why people are involved with art.

~ Jeff Koons

I think we're much smarter than we were. Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another purpose to it.

~ Roy Lichtenstein

Art gives people a reason to be alive.

~ Marilyn Manson

The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, 'What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?' And, 'How does creativity apply across the board?'

~ Kanye West

Japanese people accept that art and commerce will be blended; and, in fact, they are surprised by the rigid and pretentious Western hierarchy of 'high art.'

~ Takashi Murakami

When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.

~ Alberto Giacometti

Art is feminine... Look, if you're handsome and young and beautiful, well, people are always going to say that you're gay.

~ Juan Gabriel

You should carefully study the Art of Reasoning, as it is what most people are very deficient in, and I know few things more disagreeable than to argue, or even converse with a man who has no idea of inductive and deductive philosophy.

~ William John Wills