Quotes about imagination
imagination painting ifs
If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry Thomas Cole
imagination
Imagination is something you do alone. Steve Wozniak
imagination news capture
The best things that capture your imagination are ones you hadn't thought of before and that aren't talked about in the news all the time.
imagination people actors
There's a lot of idiots in Hollywood, a lot of people with no imagination, so as an actor you have to constantly re-show them what you can do. Stephen Dorff
imagination musical violin
Violins are the lively, forward, importunate wits, that distinguish themselves by the flourishes of imagination, sharpness of repartee, glances of satire, and bear away the upper part in every consort. Richard Steele
imagination people too-much
I'm one of those people. I can be sold by the candy in life, and then it can be stripped away within a split second and I feel like I've seen too much. And that's the way, I've been like that most of my life, so I could never say I was there yet in any stretch of the imagination. Richard Ashcroft
imagination temptation littles
A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best. Raymond Carver
imagination world imagine
Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true. Sydney J. Harris
imagination discipline mind
A university is not, primarily, a place in which to learn how to make a living; it is a place in which to learn how to be more fully a human being, how to draw upon one's resources, how to discipline the mind and expand the imagination; how to make some sense out of the big world we will shortly be thrown into.
imagination growing disease
Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology... Susan Sontag
imagination structure pornography
Experiences aren't pornographic; only images and representations - structures of the imagination - are.
imagination rooms hospitality
When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied. Rhona Mitra
imagination worry imagine
When you worry about something, you are using your immense power of imagination negatively. You are imagining the worst, and as you imagine the worst, you are bringing it to you. When you are excited about something, you are using your power of imagination positively. You are imagining the best, and as you imagine the best, you are bringing it to you. Rhonda Byrne
imagination music-love competent
I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent. Vikram Seth
imagination imagine knows
All that you can imagine you already know. Stephen Spender
imagination tone diction
This is form and content and diction and tone and imagination all looking up at the exact same moment: When Molly Tanzer claps once at the front of the classroom. Stephen Graham Jones
imagination want influence
My influences change all the time; they have to remain current, because they're the things that capture your imagination and make you want to go into the studio. Wayne McGregor
imagination pieces firsts
The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport. Van Morrison
imagination matter truth-is
Truth is a matter of the imagination. Ursula K. Le Guin
imagination dangerous subversive
There's a great fear of the imagination. It's a dangerous thing. It's out of control, it's subversive.
imagination heaven spheres
Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination. Tycho Brahe
imagination stories and-love
India is a place where all stories are possible. You forget that the imagination can take hold of anything and contemplate it and love it and describe it. Yann Martel
imagination understanding my-imagination
What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out. Wynton Marsalis
imagination together my-imagination
I do not hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them gleich alles zusammen - at the same time all together. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
imagination lag ruthlessness
I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds. Zygmunt Bauman
imagination quality wonderful
I am really only myself when I'm somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination. Zelda Fitzgerald