"A composition—and every work of art is one—is created in a wondrous interplay between imagination and reason, or between mind and reflection. For there will always be an element of chance in the creative process."
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157 quotes about imagination
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"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."
"In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance but knowledge, an understanding of the necessity of local differences, and respect. Respect, I think, always implies imagination - the ability to see one another, across our inevitable differences, as living souls. (pg. 181, Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community)"
"Poetry = Anger x Imagination"
"Like imagination, consciousness has no limits."
"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination."
"Those who make us believe that anything’s possible and fire our imagination over the long haul, are often the ones who have survived the bleakest of circumstances. The men and women who have every reason to despair, but don’t, may have the most to teach us, not only about how to hold true to our beliefs, but about how such a life can bring about seemingly impossible social change."
"Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth."
"if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones."
"A book is a device to ignite the imagination."
"The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse."
"I don’t know what’s in the box, but I love it. Unopened gifts contain hope."
"The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies."
"The universe is full of men going through the same motions in the same surroundings, but carrying within themselves, and projecting around them, universes as mutually remote as the constellations."
"When I touched her body,I believed she was God.In the curves of her formI found the birth of Man,the creation of the world,and the origin of all life."
"Anything seems possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep."
"Your fantasies define you, so dream carefully. A man with no imagination is a man with no future in today’s world—and no past in tomorrow’s."
"I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research."
"There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong."
"A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God."