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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

There's the argument that you can relate to someone who's completely unrelatable. In the way that a director shows you his imagination on a film, then I get to show you my imagination in a big dumb character.

~ Idris Elba

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.

~ Damien Hirst

Everything you do on set is directly related to your imagination when you read the script for the first time.

~ Ewan Mcgregor

It's what you don't see that keeps you on the edge of your seat in any kind of film - leave it to the imagination of the viewer.

~ Christopher Lee

Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.

~ Action Bronson

Theatre is about the collective imagination... Everything I use on-stage is driven by the subject matter and what you might call the text - but that text can be anything, from a fragment of movement or music to something you see on a TV.

~ Simon Mcburney

Some of us are interested in directors, but really the vast majority of us are interested in actors. You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.

~ Danny Boyle

You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.

~ Danny Boyle

With any kind of sci-fi, the imagination continues, and the world exists, and you create that in your own mind, and it lives in you.

~ Scott Bakula

If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude... I hope to make you use your imagination.

~ Hedy Lamarr

When France was the only reference for chefs to learn, you could go everywhere in the world, and they would copy dishes directly because they didn't have much expanded imagination or technique or knowledge.

~ Daniel Boulud

Never forget that the truest luxury is imagination, and that being a writer gives you the leeway to exploit all of the imagination's curious intricacies, to be what you were, what you are, what you will be, and what everyone else is or was or will be, too.

~ Andrew Solomon

You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.

~ Rita Dove

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

I box two to three times a week. I don't like going to the gym because it's boring. I really like boxing because you have to combine concentration and imagination. I feel like I'm actually learning something that's useful.

~ Stephanie Sigman

I've been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. It's up to you, the only limit is the imagination.

~ Steve Lacy

I just can't afford to get bored, because if you've been blessed with a generous imagination, which a lot of actors have, to be engaged, to be stimulated, is to liberate your imagination.

~ John C. Mcginley

You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you.

~ Peter Mullan

Your primary tools, as an actor, are observation and imagination. You can pretty much get everything you need from that, and you do. It brings back that element of pretend.

~ Stephen Lang

That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You're only limited by your imagination.

~ Brian K. Vaughan

I used to write stories a lot because you had to fill your hours some other way than watching television. So my imagination was vivid, and I used to write a lot of stories. I wrote a novel, which I still have, which is so awful.

~ Robert Osborne

You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.

~ Azar Nafisi

Predating the Internet and predating videos, you had an active imagination. You would hear sounds and then get mental pictures of what these sounds felt like to you. It engaged you and made you more invested in it. It made you want to get tickets to the show, buy the album, put the poster on the wall. Now it's sensory overload.

~ Q-Tip

Writers to some extent are childish, and it's at the childish level that one really engages with any experience. What really moves you is at the very personal, childish level of the imagination. My business is the imagination, and my imagination is engaged by Asia.

~ Christopher Koch

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

Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.

~ Valentino Rossi

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

~ Vincent Van Gogh

To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.

~ Elliott Erwitt

If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art.

~ Andy Warhol

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

~ Will Rogers

You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

~ John Singer Sargent

What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It's not what you see that is art; art is the gap.

~ Marcel Duchamp

There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.

~ Georges Braque

Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.

~ Russell Simmons

Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.

~ Mary Schmich

Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.

~ Emily Carr

You should never feel afraid to become a piece of art. It's exhilarating.

~ Nicki Minaj

There's not a lot of art forms where you can control your presentation and your ideas.

~ Gerard Way

Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

~ Sylvia Plath