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I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book. Actually, I always wanted to be in a comic book. I watched cartoons when I was a kid, too, and both comics and cartoons lit fire in my imagination. This realm holds a lot of interest for me, a lot of passion for me. So to be comic-ized, yeah, that's cool.
Nathan Fillion on imagination

I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich on imagination

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

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 on imagination

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.
Henry George on imagination

I never in my wildest imagination dreamed that I would somehow become a sports commentator.
Joe Rogan on imagination

It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
Ursula K. Le Guin on imagination

My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
Tom Waits on imagination

The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.
Ben Okri on imagination

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
Ian Mcewan on imagination

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.
Ian Mcewan on imagination

As an actor you have to have a strong vivid imagination as you're working and when the camera's rolling, but there's certainly a part of you that is aware of real life, that you're making a movie.
John Hawkes on imagination

What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out.
Wynton Marsalis on imagination

I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.
Andrew Wyeth on imagination

I can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth and then I can fly free.
Andrew Wyeth on imagination

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 on imagination

I feel like I'm a much better person when I'm developing my imagination and my innocence and my vulnerability. I like that version of me better than the version where I'm just working on my analytical mind.
Brit Marling on imagination

All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly.
Tommy Lee Jones on imagination

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 on imagination

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
Wislawa Szymborska on imagination