Quotes by Imagination If you don't have imagination you're lost. But it's a virtue that's becoming increasingly rare, especially in its higher form: spontaneity. Mad, happy spontaneity. Francoise Sagan madbecomingimagination There are no shortcuts in life - only those we imagine. Frank Leahy nflimaginationlife Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he or she is in. That person must reflect what is projected upon him or her. Frank Herbert greatnessimaginationfeelings This is the awe-inspiring universe of magic: There are no atoms, only waves and motions all around. Here, you discard all belief in barriers to understanding. You put aside understanding itself. This universe cannot be seen, cannot be heard, cannot be detected in any way by fixed perceptions. It is the ultimate void where no preordained screens occur upon which forms may be projected. You have only one awareness here—the screen of the magi: Imagination! Here, you learn what it is to be human. You are a creator of order, of beautiful shapes and systems, an organizer of chaos. Frank Herbert imaginationbeautifulorder Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth Frank Lloyd Wright triumphimaginationmen An idea is salvation by imagination. Frank Lloyd Wright imaginationideasart While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Mr. Ashcroft is delighted to play the part of Fear Itself, an assignment in which he lets his imagination run riot. Frank Rich imaginationplayrunning The human understanding is moved by those things most which strike and enter the mind simultaneously and suddenly, and so fill the imagination; and then it feigns and supposes all other things to be somehow, though it cannot see how, similar to those few things by which it is surrounded. Francis Bacon understandingimaginationscience Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all. Franklin P. Adams imaginationwritingmight Once you realize that it is impossible to capture the character of the various manifestations of nature by pictorial means, and that an interpretation based on imagination is equally erroneous, you will not find yourself facing a gaping void as you might have feared. Frantisek Kupka imaginationcharactermean Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion. Francis Bacon remembranceplatoimagination I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can. Franz Schubert i-canimaginationtrying The very remoteness kindles the imagination of the adventurous hunter. From the top of any mountain the challenge extends far and wide, until the mountains meet the sky. Fred Bear imaginationchallengessky Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second. For there is a youth in thoughts, as well as in ages. And yet the invention of young men, is more lively than that of old; and imaginations stream into their minds better, and, as it were, more divinely. Francis Bacon imaginationwisemen Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts! Franz Grillparzer bodyimaginationfeet I really like dating stories, like in Betty and Veronica comics; I like David Lynch and H.P. Lovecraft for the dark gut-wrenching stuff, and I'm inspired by Miyazaki's films for the subtle heart-warming moments, as well as the moments that blew up my imagination. Fred Seibert imaginationdarkheart I would love to be able to write a tragedy in my imagination--it would turn into a masterpiece. Franz Grillparzer tragedyimaginationwriting It appears to be uncertain whether the journey of Mary with her husband was obligatory or voluntary. . . . Women were liable to a capitation tax, if this enrolment also involved taxation. But, apart from any legal necessity, it may easily be imagined that at such a moment Mary would desire not to be left alone. The cruel suspicion of which she had been the subject, and which had almost led to the breaking off of her betrothal (Matt. 1: 19) would make her cling all the more to the protection of her husband. Frederic Farrar husbandimaginationjourney Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza. Franz Kafka misfortunesimagination But the involuntary tricks of memory and the voluntary ones of imagination make always such terrible havoc of facts that truth, be it ever so much sought and cared for, appears in history and biography only in a more or less disfigured condition. Frederick Niecks imaginationtruthmemories«4445464748495051525354»
