Quotes by Imagination If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art are perhaps a little to blame, for in them we find at work the same process of simplification or selection as in the imagination. Alain de Botton imagination world art By travelling across frontiers, on horseback and in the imagination, Montaigne invited us to to exchange local prejudices and the self division they induced for less constraining identities as citizens of the world. Alain de Botton imagination identity self Not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken kinship with nature. Art must accept such gifts, and revaluate the giver. Alain LeRoy Locke broken imagination art Memory belongs to the imagination. Human memory is not like a computer which records things; it is part of the imaginative process, on the same terms as invention. Alain Robbe-Grillet records imagination memories Memory belongs to the imagination. Alain Robbe-Grillet imagination memories A book is a device to ignite the imagination. Alan Bennett reading imagination book It's a bubble. It has to have intrinsic value. You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven't been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can. Alan Greenspan bitcoin able imagination Most churches don't have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building. Alan Hirsch sunday church imagination Brings [O'Brian's] achievement to a new height....Such is O'Brian's power to possess the imagination that I found I was living in his world as much as my own, wanting to know what happens next. That is the real test. Any contemporary novelist should recognize in Patrick O'Brian a Master of the Art. Alan Judd real imagination art No one knows the nature of God, or even if God exists. In a sense, all of our religions are literary works of the imagination. Alan Lightman literary-works god-exists imagination There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money. Alan Moore inverse imagination I'm the idea of the human imagination, which, when you think about it, is the only thing we can really be certain ISN'T imaginary. Alan Moore imagination ideas thinking My dear, beautiful and imaginative things can be destroyed. Beauty and imagination cannot. Alan Moore dear imagination beautiful Rather than being able to have a healthy relationship with our own sexual imagination, we're driven into some dark corners by shame and embarrassment and guilt, and those dark corners breed all sorts of monsters. Alan Moore healthy imagination dark One longs for a director with a sense of imagination. Alan Rickman imagination directors The trouble with many religions, accused of wishful thinking, is that they are not wishful enough. They show a deplorable lack of imagination. Alan Watts imagination trouble thinking But what are a hundred million deaths? When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is, after a while. And since a dead man has no substance unless one has actually seen him dead, a hundred million corpses broadcast through history are no more than a puff of smoke in the imagination. Albert Camus imagination men war Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are. Albert Camus imagination people art I've never really had much of an imagination. But still I would try to picture the exact moment when the beating of my heart would no longer be going on inside my head. Albert Camus imagination heart trying Myths are made for the imagination to breath life into them. Albert Camus myth imagination made «1234567891011»
