Quotes About Imagination

Not everyone is fodder for books," said Rosalind.

Wouldn't it be strange, she thought, to have a blue sky? But she liked the way it looked. It would be beautiful - a blue sky.

For the painful essence of withdrawal does not reside in the present suffering it brings - withdrawal is painless on the level of the immediate moment - but in the prospect of suffering to come, the rich future that one can imagine one's torture enjoying.

Écrire, c'est fermer les yeux en les gardant ouverts.

All my films hinge on the fantastic. I'm not a documentarian; a film is first and foremost a dream, and it's absurd to copy life in an attempt to produce an exact recreation of it. Transposition is more or less a reflex with me.

I move from realism to fantasy without the spectator ever noticing.

They also remind us of the importance of the imagination.

When this faculty of imagination is not kept alive, there is no more story to be told, and institutions begin to stiffen and become dogmatic. Their objectifications then take on the quality of absolutes. When imagination becomes stuck or frozen, creation and poetry are no longer possible, and this also closes the door to democratic processes as well the arts and sciences. If people lack imagination, how can they find solutions to the challenges of life?

Do not believe anything merely because you are told it is so, because others believe it, because it comes from Tradition, or because you have imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect. Believe, take for your doctrine, and hold true to that, which, after serious investigation, seems to you to further the welfare of all beings. (47)

aesthetics is for the artists as ornithology is for the birds.

Af en toe levensgrote paranoia creëren verleent aan een tocht een bepaalde, aantrekkelijke dimensie, die mij soms aanzet de gekste situaties te bedenken.

No, I don't know what it's like to be an amnesiac teenager. I do know what it's like to feel overwhelmed, or alone, or as if no one understands you or likes you. We've all been there. But the specifics of what a person feels at a certain point in their life is of course different. I just tried to use my imagination responsibly and respectfully.

A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.

At every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is that we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it could be different.

Fine," said Khadgar, looking at the books. "I'll just sit here and figure out how to tame an hourglass.

In that house, Rob read. Rather, Jackie read to him, but she felt as if he were reading along with her. With the opening of a book, a shift occurred in his eyes and he nestled an inch deeper into her lap while angling his chin upward, and he seemed to age a year or two. Not a reader herself, Jackie went to the local library for the first time and pulled the popular titles: the Berenstain Bears, Richard Scarry wordbooks, Dr. Seuss, Eric Carle.

As a child, books had been his passageway into foreign, sometimes utopian worlds. Carnival wasn't just an incarnation of that passageway in reality; it was everything that lay on the other side, where the only thing that mattered was the moment, and millions of people were able to inhabit that moment with ease and, predominantly, with bliss.

Engineering does not replace art in a design, it makes it possible.

You have control over the pictures that occupy your mind. — Jeff Keller

Youre gonna grow up and marry some ice cream! Haha!

I realised all the good ideas were taken before I was even born.

Chirag: Rowley, do you think I exist? Rowley: Nope! I can't even hear you or see you!

the brain is like a muscle, and if you don't exercise it by reading and doing creative stuff, it'll get weak and mushy.

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