Think Quotes

You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.

~ Charles De Gaulle

It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see. To think the way others think. And above all, to feel.

~ Salman Rushdie

I think acting is a work of imagination.

~ Elodie Yung

I don't feel there's any reason to apologise for having a wicked imagination. I think it's important as a maker of fantasy and of horror.

~ Clive Barker

I don't believe my house was haunted. I think I had an overactive imagination, and I was so convinced that those around me became convinced, too.

~ Ryan Gosling

People may think I'm trying something new by telling stories, but they're just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That's what I do.

~ Steven Wright

I always felt that what is scary is actually hearing someone tell you what they think they see. That sense of invisibility makes things a lot scarier, since your imagination tends to fill in the gaps.

~ James Wan

I use so much of myself in everything I do. I think every actor does because you have no one else to go to but yourself and your own imagination.

~ Pierce Brosnan

There's a particular sensitivity required to be an artist, and a certain vulnerability, perhaps, and also, somewhere between, you're in your body a lot, too. It's much more physical than one would imagine because I think it's the body where the imagination lives somehow. I do feel the imagination isn't just in the brain up there.

~ Michael Leunig

I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.

~ Claire Danes

I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also.

~ Morrissey

I wouldn't say I have comedy chops. I guess you get lucky with good writing because I don't think I'm a comedian by any stretch of the imagination.

~ Michael Pena

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

~ Christina Ricci

I tend to be really spacey, but I don't think it's because I'm unintelligent - it's just my imagination and a little bit of ADD.

~ Jenny Slate

I'm a big fan of imagination. I think it's the strongest tool we have, and there are some things that you just can't practice.

~ Rupert Friend

I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warner Brothers, Merrie Melodies, and Loony Tunes cartoons.

~ Billy Collins

I don't think there is such a thing as pure imagination. I think it's a combination of memory and invention.

~ Ethan Canin

If there is a book that the script came from you have to read it, you have to see what you can get out of it: mood, back story and things that may not even be in the film. They kick off your imagination and broaden the character, I think.

~ Miranda Otto

I don't think most books can be justifiably translated on screen. The film versions can't convey the right emotion, fuel your imagination or allow you to visualise every line the way books do.

~ Sonam Kapoor

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

~ J. G. Ballard

I think imagination is a crazy thing, and that's what makes the world go around.

~ Shahid Khan

We have to learn not to feel guilty about letting our imagination browse around, and you know, in writing fiction particularly. But I think, in any kind of writing, we have to learn to allow ourselves to approach it in a contemplative way.

~ Sue Monk Kidd

I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination.

~ Eric Bana

I think what's really the most ideal thing is for the player themselves, within their own imagination, to carve out what they view as being the essence of the character.

~ Shigeru Miyamoto

I think most of the time you can make something happen, and it's about not letting your imagination be limited by that.

~ Jane Goldman

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.

~ Tim Robbins

My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.

~ Richard Russo

To me, stretching the capabilities of my imagination is a crucial aspect of writing fiction; you could think of it as a mental form of athleticism.

~ Julia Glass

I think of myself as a little kid, and I had a wild imagination, but it was something that was encouraged and supported, which helped steer me into the arts.

~ Uzo Aduba

I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.

~ Jean-Michel Basquiat

The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.

~ Jackson Pollock

I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.

~ Barbara Kruger

Back in third grade, they used to say, 'Take whatever talent you have and think of something you can do with it.' I liked to draw, but what could I do with it? Maybe I could be an art dealer - nah, can't see myself doing that. Maybe I could do commercial arts?

~ The Notorious B.i.g.

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.

~ Anthony Kiedis

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

~ Thom Gunn

Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing.

~ Peter Hammill

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

~ Aldous Huxley

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.

~ Andrew Wyeth

I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

~ Marshall Mcluhan

I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.

~ Jim Morrison