Quotes by Imagination A novel, for me, relies on my imagination to inspire your (the reader's) imagination. It is not all there for you. My novels or my stories come to me visually. I use words to translate the novel I see inside my head into words that I hope will create a movie inside your head. Jay Neugeboren imaginationstoriesinspire Mine is not an autonomous imagination. Jay McInerney autonomousminesimagination I never had the financial means that the media said I had. I laugh when I hear the amounts, $400 million, $800 million. Where do they get this imagination? Jean-Claude Duvalier mediaimaginationmean Oddly, though, lists are reassuring. We become aware of this if we scrupulously follow a recipe, which is essentially a list of ingredients and actions; but if we give this 'list' too much importance, we leave no room for the imagination. Jean-Claude Ellena recipesimaginationgiving To look, to record, to inscribe, to reproduce, to imitate, to reveal, to imagine are for me the seven keys of photographic imagination. Jean-Francois Chevrier recordskeysimagination Normal means lack of imagination and creativity. Jean Dubuffet creativityimaginationmean There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth. Jean Giraudoux imaginationlawexercise Imaginations blossom amidst memories. One judiciously separates them - but is there really any point in that? Doesn't truth suffer when one amputates it from its context of dreams? Jean Helion imaginationdreammemories Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. Jean Baudrillard imaginationgivingreality I understand abstract art as an attempt to feed imagination with a world built through the basic sensations of the eyes. Jean Helion eyeimaginationart We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasure of being a woman, for women have all the qualities - courage, passion, the capacity to love, cunning - whereas all our imagination can do is naively pile up the illusion of courage. Jean Baudrillard passionimaginationlove We are still a pioneer culture in some ways. A pioneer culture has to put all of its muscle into surviving on the frontier and pushing back the wilderness. So when you start to talk about imagination, inner space, and the structures of the psyche, that becomes scary. Jean Houston scaryspaceimagination you pay a price for the 'gift' of an active imagination. While mine played a major part in making me a writer, it also made me adept at transforming run-of-the-mill molehills into towering mountain ranges. Jean Little mountain-rangesimaginationrunning The force of what was called Panther rhetoric or word mongering resided not in elegant discourse but in strength of affirmation (or denial), in anger of tone and timbre. When the anger led to action there was no turgidity or over-emphasis. Anyone who has witnessed political rows among the Whites will have to admit that the Whites aren't overburdened with poetic imagination. Jean Genet denialpoliticalimagination Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion. Jean de La Fontaine foolopinionimagination They who, without any previous knowledge of us, think amiss of us, do us no harm; they attack not us, but the phantom of their own imagination. Jean de la Bruyere prejudiceimaginationthinking I believe in imagination. I was a worker when I was 17. Between 17 and 21, I was a worker in the telephone company and imagination saved my life. Jean-Pierre Jeunet telephonesimaginationbelieve When I was a kid, I used to escape from my family with my imagination, and I kept this spirit into my adult life. This doesn't always happen. All children have imagination, but for some it doesn't carry over. Jean-Pierre Jeunet imaginationkidschildren It's always been pretty easy for me to exercise my imagination. The other part of the brain, the one that does mathematics, is a nightmare for me. It doesn't work at all. Jean-Pierre Jeunet imaginationexercisebrain Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom. Jean-Paul Sartre realizingconsciousnessimagination«6970717273747576777879»
