Quotes by Imagination We suffer more in imagination than in reality. Seneca the Younger imaginationsufferingreality The Japanese, if I understand them, are masters of the unsaid and the unstated, of subtlety and ambiguity, all of which constitute powerful stimulants to the imagination. Semir Zeki powerfulmastersimagination They whose activity of imagination is often shifting the scenes of expectation, are frequently subject to such sallies of caprice as make all their actions fortuitous, destroy the value of their friendship, obstruct the efficacy of their virtues, and set them below the meanest of those who persist in their resolutions, execute what they design, and perform what they have promised. Samuel Johnson focusimaginationexpectations The function of the flashback is Freudian...You have to let them wander like the imagination or like a dream. Sergio Leone functionimaginationdream I've always believed that true cinema is cinema of the imagination. Sergio Leone always-believecinemaimagination Programmed by quanta, physics gave rise first to chemistry and then to life; programmed by mutations and recombination, life gave rise to Shakespeare; programmed by experience and imagination, Shakespeare gave rise to Hamlet. Seth Lloyd mutationimaginationfirsts While about one-third of Americans believe in ghosts, you won't find many exhibits on these spooky beings down at the local science museum. Why? Well, one explanation that you might consider, ghosts are just figments of our highly fertile imaginations! Seth Shostak imaginationmuseumsbelieve To act in an independent manner, you must begin to initiate action that you want to occur physically by creating it in your own being. This is done by combining belief, emotion and imagination, and forming them into a mental picture of the desired physical result. Seth creatingindependentimagination For me, drawing is a way of navigating the imagination and it remains the fundamental vehicle of my practice. Drawing allows me to be at my most inventive. Shahzia Sikander drawingimaginationpractice Physical reality springs from the imagination, which follows the path of your beliefs Seth imaginationspringreality Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it. Shana Alexander dancerimaginationperfection There is drinking in lots of the songs because there is drinking in life. Drinking stimulates the imagination. Shane MacGowan imaginationdrinkingsong The greatest sin of political imagination: Thinking there is no other way except the filthy rotten system we have today. Shane Claiborne politicalimaginationthinking Violence is for those who have lost their imagination. Shane Claiborne violenceimaginationlost There is nothing worse than an enemy with imagination. Sharon Kay Penman imaginationenemy Creativity can be defined as an original act of imagination that brings something into existence. It is a desire and innate drive to make new connections between things, to give form, and to transform. Shaun McNiff creativityimaginationgiving Creative freedom is determined by how we behold the world. Any one of us can make new things with our perceptions that serve as doorways to the creative imagination. No one is excluded. Shaun McNiff perceptioncreativeimagination The moon develops the imagination, as chemicals develop photographic images. Sheila Ballantyne chemicalsmoonimagination The point I would make is that the novelist and the historian are seeking the same thing: the truth – not a different truth: the same truth – only they reach it, or try to reach it, by different routes. Whether the event took place in a world now gone to dust, preserved by documents and evaluated by scholarship, or in the imagination, preserved by memory and distilled by the creative process, they both want to tell us how it was: to re-create it, by their separate methods, and make it live again in the world around them. Shelby Foote dustimaginationmemories If outrageous imagination is the wine of madness, then come fill my cup. Sheldon B. Kopp cupswineimagination«136137138139140141142143144145146»
