Gaston Bachelard Quotes

Imagination is a tree. It has the integrative virtues of a tree. It is root and boughs. It lives between earth and sky. It lives in the earth and the wind. The imagined tree imperceptibly becomes a cosmological tree, the tree which epitomises a universe, which makes a universe.

Gaston Bachelard

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• Universe
• Imagination
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• Sky
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• I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.

  

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• I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.

  

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• My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules. I didn't know it, because I hadn't been in the business.

  

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• Fashion isn't something you can buy; you need to have the sense of it, and most people don't.

  

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• I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.

  

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• Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.

  

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• I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.

  

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• I have been very fortunate in my life. I think I have an angel that is always with me. Good projects always come to me.

  

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• I want to do that. That's my goal. I want to become a legend.

  

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• My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.

  

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• Imagination is a tree. It has the integrative virtues of a tree. It is root and boughs. It lives between earth and sky. It lives in the earth and the wind. The imagined tree imperceptibly becomes a cosmological tree, the tree which epitomises a universe, which makes a universe.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Earth
  • Universe
  • Imagination