Quotes by Imagination Writing, in any sense that matters, cannot be taught. It can only be learned by each separate one of us in his own way, by the use of his own powers of imagination and perception, the ability to learn the lessons he has set for himself. Katherine Anne Porter perceptionimaginationwriting A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her cells. But what distinguishes the worst architect from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality. Karl Marx cellsimaginationreality Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page and be a co-author with the writer, because the story is just squiggles on the page unless you have a reader. Katherine Paterson creativereadingimagination If you can capture a womans imagination, then you will have her. But imagination is a strange creature. It needs time and distance to function properly. Kathleen Tessaro distanceimaginationlove It was not the purpose of poetry to record anything and everything, to merely describe either the outer world or some subjective mood, but to speak from the imagination of the poet to the imagination of the reader. Kathleen Raine recordspurposeimagination If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven? Katherine Paterson imagineimaginationheaven Our fundamental task as human beings is to seek out connections-to exercise our imaginations. Katherine Paterson imaginationhumanityexercise What we need to wake people up to now is the crisis in imagination and concern for the greater good. We have no idea what the next ten years, much less the next fifty years, will demand of the coming generation. What we do know is that unless we have a people prepared and eager to meet those crises creatively and compassionately, there is not much hope for this poor old planet of ours. Katherine Paterson imaginationyearsideas I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me. Kazuo Ishiguro aliveimaginationworld As actors we're always trying to use our creative imagination. Keith David always-tryingcreativeimagination I've done a lot of bad things. Use your imagination. Katy Perry doneimaginationuse I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it. Keith Haring imaginationartthinking The improviser has to understand that his first skill lies in releasing his partner’s imagination. Keith Johnstone skillsimaginationlying Imagination is as effortless as perception, unless we think it might be ‘wrong’, which is what our education encourages us to believe. Keith Johnstone imaginationbelievethinking At school any spontaneous act was likely to get me into trouble. I learned never to act on impulse, and that whatever came into my mind first should be rejected in favour of better ideas. I learned that my imagination Wasn’t ‘good’ enough. I learned that the first idea was unsatisfactory because it was (1) psychotic; (2) obscene; (3) unoriginal. The truth is that the best ideas are often psychotic, obscene and unoriginal. Keith Johnstone imaginationideasschool I love the of dealing with the homoerotic versus the idea of dealing with certain tropes with regards to black masculinity in the world, propensity towards sports, antisocial behavior, hypersexuality - all of these sort of non-truths that I don't exist in but that I see as being fixed in the world's imagination. Kehinde Wiley imaginationsportsideas Sometimes I fall into the trap of keeping too much to myself, but I think it's important to preserve certain things, it leaves something to the imagination. Keiynan Lonsdale imaginationfallthinking I guess I'm not really involving my imagination to that of a circumstance or happening - I'm just kind of acknowledging it as an existence. Keanu Reeves existencekindimagination Working with the body and the imagination - non-verbal ways especially - tap into our deepest wounds and our highest potentials as humans. Kelly Carlin-McCall bodyimaginationway For me, psychology and art interact and overlap in so many ways. Psychology is the study of the inner life and creativity comes from the imagination and a response to the environment, as you know. So they're both very similar in that way because it's about one's inner life interacting with the environment and what comes from that. Kelly Carlin-McCall creativityimaginationart«8586878889909192939495»
