Quotes by Imagination When you're playing Shakespeare, it forces you to think and feel and speak all at the same time, which really is what acting is. It expands your imagination and expands your size of thinking. Andre Holland acting imagination thinking Appreciating old wine is like making love to a very old lady. It is possible. It can even be enjoyable. But it requires a bit of imagination. Andre Tchelistcheff appreciate wine imagination Feminist art may... though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme... should we call it 'joy'? Andrea Dworkin ambition imagination art Where am I when I'm not in reality or in my imagination? Andrei Tarkovsky my-imagination imagination reality My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest. Andrew Bird dry imagination literature I didn't have the patience for the research, or anything like that. I just like how it sets the imagination off. It's just an area that's very fertile for great words. Great metaphors, potentially. Andrew Bird metaphor research imagination I don't like super-descriptive modern fiction. I like, "Here's what was happening in 1582 all over the planet." Then that gets my imagination going. Andrew Bird modern imagination fiction On one hand, I kind of feel like I have unlimited options right now, and obviously that's not technically true, but when you're at this place where you're just kind of dreaming up stuff, your imagination is your limit. That's where I'm at, which is great, but ultimately I think you have to make these decisions to close off some options to yourself. I think things only get done when you say, "This is the one thing I'm doing," and you kind of kill the other ones in the meantime. So I haven't done that yet, I've got to figure that out. Andrew Bujalski imagination dream thinking I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination. Andrew Motion extraordinary-person imagination beautiful A lover exists only in fragments, a dozen or so if the romance is new, a thousand if we're married to him, and out of those fragments our heart constructs an entire person. What we each create, since whatever is missing is filled by our imagination, is the person we wish him to be. The less we know him, of course, the more we love him. And that's why we always remember that first rapturous night when he was a stranger, and why this rapture returns only when he's dead. Andrew Sean Greer imagination heart night Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the whiff of negativity. We depend on the guarantee in our children's faces that we will not die. Children whose defining quality annihilates that fantasy of immortality are a particular insult; we must love them for themselves, and not for the best of ourselves in them, and that is a great deal harder to do. Loving our own children is an exercise for the imagination. Andrew Solomon imagination exercise children Loving our own children is an exercise for the imagination. Andrew Solomon imagination exercise children I can't work completely out of my imagination-I must put my foot in a bit of truth-and then I can fly free. Andrew Wyeth bits imagination feet I surrender to the world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare. Andrew Wyeth imagination father world Everything that fed my energy and imagination is something that I'm disinclined to speak about. Andrey Zvyagintsev energy speak imagination Worry is just imagination used in an unproductive way. Andy Andrews imagination worry way My manic depression was ravaging my life, but because nobody could see it, many people thought it was a figment of my imagination. Andy Behrman figments imagination people I had to really do some studying and examination of my own songwriting and I realized that, there's not a formula by any stretch of the imagination and aren't any rules, but there are principles. The first one is that art is a process, not a product. In fact, that holds true for damn near everything we do in life. The product is just something that happens. If you're faithful to the process, the product takes care of itself. Andy Wilkinson imagination writing art He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. He does not have to struggle... with the crowded pulsations of a fecund imagination. On the contrary he is almost devoid of imagination. Aneurin Bevan imagination struggle mind This lack of imagination gives his heroism to the hero. Angela Carter imagination hero giving «56789101112131415»
