Quotes by Imagination The visionary imagination is the source of art and religion. Alex Grey visionaryimaginationartreligion A fully engaged imagination is essential to the spiritual practice of the Tibetan Buddhist Vajrayana School, whose artistic tradition is in service of consciousness transformation. Alex Grey servicetraditionimaginationschool What I see in science is a lot of imagination referring to things that are fundamental to what we are. Our cells, our history, our future, our place in the universe, our lack of place in the universe. That's poetry as far as I'm concerned. Alex Garland futureimaginationsciencehistory The aspect of kind of living in your imagination and creating a more romantic vision of the world than the reality that you're given - that's definitely something I can sort of relate to. Alden Ehrenreich youvisionimaginationromantic The hoax is the very absence of truth, which usually means art is absent, too - hoaxes regularly substitute claims of reality for imagination, facts for form, acting as if artifice is the antithesis of art. Kevin Young imaginationtruthrealityart There's this long history of colonialism and the colonial gaze when applied to matters related to China. So a lot of conceptions about China in literary representations in the West are things you can't even fight against because they've been there so long that they've become part of the Western imagination of China. Ken Liu fightyouimaginationhistory For me, the distant future and far-off galaxies is where it's at. That's where my imagination can really come out to play. Alastair Reynolds mefutureimaginationplay I've developed a theory that there's an inverse relationship between money and imagination. That if you've got lots of imagination then you don't really need much money, and if you've got lots of money then you won't bother with much imagination. Alan Moore youmoneyimaginationrelationship Teachers need to feel they are trusted. They must be allowed some leeway to use their imagination; otherwise, teaching loses all sense of wonder and excitement. Alan Bennett teachersfeelimaginationwonder Because some of my at-home life was rough and lonely, I often looked to escape into my imagination. Science fiction provided a deep well to pull from and was something easily accessible to me. Keahu Kahuanui meimaginationlifescience The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination. Ai Weiwei passionsocietyimaginationart Living in a small town, one of the keys to survival was your imagination. Nick Nolte yoursmallsurvivalimagination When you read a book, you create that tonal bandwidth. You set a tone for yourself, as you're reading it, in which everything exists within the world of your imagination. Nina Jacobson yourselfyouimaginationworld I've always had a good imagination. If I saw a sitcom, and everything was made out of cheese, I wouldn't go 'What?' I wouldn't get angry. I'd think, 'Right, OK, all cheese? Amazing.' Noel Fielding amazinggoodangryimagination The really best acting is children in a playground or in a backyard. They're just lost in their imagination. The backyard isn't a pirate ship or a jungle, in the same way that the soundstage isn't Shambala. Nolan North bestimaginationchildrenway At least since the Industrial Revolution, the world of design has been dominated by the rigors of manufacturing and mass production. Assembly lines have dictated a world made of parts, framing the imagination of designers and architects who have been trained to think about their objects as assemblies of discrete parts with distinct functions. Neri Oxman thinkrevolutionimaginationworld I think there's such a fine line in a relationship. The role of imagination and privacy... how much space can you allow before that becomes distance? And similarly, imagination is empathy. That's how you achieve empathy. It's how you can be with another person and understand how they are in the world. Katie Kitamura youimaginationrelationshipworld I have always been fascinated by paleontology and prehistoric people, and I've always thought that one of the most intriguing moments in human history was the birth of artistic imagination. I always loved those cave paintings. Kathryn Lasky lovedimaginationhistorypeople The problem with people who are afraid of imagination, of fantasy, is that their world becomes so narrow that I don't see how they can imagine beyond what their senses can verify. We know from science that there are entire worlds that our senses can't verify. Katherine Paterson imaginationsciencepeopleworld Girls are capable of doing everything men are capable of doing. Sometimes they have more imagination than men. Katherine Johnson doingimaginationsometimesmen«179180181182183184185186187188189»
