Quotes by Imagination How can a novelist achieve atonement when, with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also God? There is no one, no entity or higher form that she can appeal to, or be reconciled with, or that can forgive her. There is nothing outside her. In her imagination she has set the limits and the terms. No atonement for God, or novelists, even if they are atheists. It was always an impossible task, and that was precisely the point. The attempt was all. Ian Mcewan forgivingatheistimagination The mark of the modern world is the imagination of its profiteers and the counter-assertiveness of the oppressed. Exploitation and the refusal to accept exploitation as either inevitable or just constitute the continuing antinomy of the modern era, joined together in a dialectic which has far from reached its climax in the twentieth century. Immanuel Wallerstein imaginationtogetherworld There's the argument that you can relate to someone who's completely unrelatable. In the way that a director shows you his imagination on a film, then I get to show you my imagination in a big dumb character. Idris Elba dumbimaginationcharacter Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations. Imelda Staunton agentsboxesimagination Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it. Igor Stravinsky inventionconfusedimagination Politics is the enemy of the imagination. Ian Mcewan politicsimaginationenemy I've been very passionate about storytelling ever since I was a kid. I really don't remember a time when I didn't want to be an actor, and ever since I could remember, I had a really extravagant imagination. Inbar Lavi passionateimaginationkids We have a duty towards music; namely to invent it. ...Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it. For the act of invention implies the necessity of a lucky find and of achieving realization of this find. What we imagine does not necessarily take on concrete form and may remain in a state of virtuality; whereas invention is not conceivable apart from its actually being worked out. Igor Stravinsky confusedimaginationdoe I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player. Imran Khan imaginationplayersports Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match. Ingrid Bengis advertisingimaginationlife The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith. Henry Ward Beecher eyeimaginationcivilization The arts of speech are rhetoric and poetry. Rhetoric is the art of transacting a serious business of the understanding as if it were a free play of the imagination; poetry that of conducting a free play of the imagination as if it were a serious business of the understanding. Immanuel Kant imaginationplayart I've always thought cruelty is a failure of imagination. Ian Mcewan crueltyimagination He hated the war; it threatened much more than his lifestyle or peace of mind. It continually destroyed the world of the imagination, the only world where he felt happy. Irene Nemirovsky imaginationwarhappy-life Nothing stimulates the practiced cook's imagination like an egg. Irma S. Rombauer eggsimaginationfood When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in our imagination. The sequence of pictures plays directly on our feelings. Ingmar Bergman imaginationplayfeelings But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art. Iris Murdoch imaginationdeathart Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality. Irving Howe leavingimaginationreality Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself. Immanuel Kant ingredientsperceptionimagination The imagination never forgets; it is a re-membering. It is not foundationless, but most reasonable, and it alone uses all the knowledge of the intellect. Henry David Thoreau never-forgetimaginationuse«6061626364656667686970»
