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Quotes About Imagination

San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.
~ Gavin Newsom
I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular.
~ Seamus Heaney
I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do.
~ Isaac Rosenberg
Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.
~ Jean Anouilh
If you want poets in space, you'll have to wait.
~ Buzz Aldrin
Novelists and poets have existed side by side forever.
~ Stan Brakhage
All poets are idlers, even if all idlers are not poets.
~ Tom Hodgkinson
The scientist and engineers who are building the future need the poets to make sense of it.
~ Jason Silva
Poets take themselves very seriously.
~ Grace Paley
Poets are not meant to be in competition.
~ Howard Jacobson
In reading, we are both scientists and poets.
~ Maryanne Wolf
Some directors are like poets.
~ Manisha Koirala
The point is, how do you know the Guarantee Fairy isn't a crazy glue sniffer.
~ Chris Farley
Science fiction is what we point to when we say it.
~ Damon Knight
The point of painting is not really deception or imitation.
~ A. S. Byatt
The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the animal body before it was human. The intricate connections of mind and body must exceed our imagination, as from our point of view we are peculiarly prevented from observing them.
~ John Desmond Bernal
I find it to be easier to write from a man's point of view.
~ S. E. Hinton
When I hear a story, I think about it from the point of view of the audience.
~ Catherine Tresa
It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not.
~ Michael Ondaatje
One of the great pleasures of acting is surrendering to someone else's point of view of the world - living inside a character and a story that never would have come out of your mind or heart.
~ Brit Marling
I read a lot of sci-fi when I was younger. Loved it from the literary point of view.
~ Bonnie Hammer
As an actor, you can't play a flashback; you can't play someone's memory. You just have to play each circumstance as if it was real and understand that person's point of view.
~ O. T. Fagbenle
I don't want to draw from my own experiences in life. I first like to become the character and then think from her point of view.
~ Shweta Tripathi
I think the most important thing I do as head writer of 'Kenan & Kel' and 'All That' is make sure any jokes we do, any situations we approach are from a kid's point of view.
~ Dan Schneider