Quotes About Experience

For me, it's important to experience aesthetic shock, which sets in motion our imagination, our emotions, our feelings, and our thoughts. That's the purpose of a painting and of art in general.

Narrowness of experience leads to narrowness of imagination

But sometimes what we call 'memory' and what we call 'imagination' are not so easily distinguished.

Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.

I deserved to find pleasure that surpassed my imagination, better than any I had experienced.

A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.

I can state with complete assurance that for each of us our brains form the material basis of our experiences and memories, our imaginations, our dreams.

I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I'd try to reenact it.

Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Memory belongs to the imagination.

Experience, the only logic sure to convince a diseased imagination and restore it to rugged health.

One of the best things about aging is being able to watch imagination overtake memory.

Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.

Everyone must go through all experiences but they need not go through them all in reality -they can do it vicariously, by imagination.

Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.

Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.

No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.

It's beyond imagination until you actually get up and see it and experience it and feel it.

Imagination comes in after we have experience.

Bricks without straw are more easily made than imagination without memories.

Great writers zealously learn the craft of their profession so they can release the power and the depth of their imagination and experience.

Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?

Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination.