Arthur Dove Quotes
It is the form the idea takes in the imagination rather than the form as it exists outside.
Arthur Dove
Quotes to Explore
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No breed of cats in its proper condition can by any stretch of the imagination be thought of as even slightly ungraceful - a record against which must be pitted the depressing spectacle of impossibly flattened bulldogs, grotesquely elongated dachshunds, hideously shapeless and shaggy Airedales, and the like.
H. P. Lovecraft
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Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.
Malachy McCourt
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Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.
Florence Welch
Florence and the Machine
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I changed my name at 14 because no one outside of my family could pronounce my first name correctly.
J. August Richards
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I don't have a great imagination to share something with you that you don't know, so it's about interpreting things - a dialogue.
Nate Lowman
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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
Victor Hugo
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Encourage children to write their own stories, and then don't rain on their parade. Don't say, 'That's not true.' Applaud flights of fantasy. Help with spelling and grammar, but stand up and cheer the use of imagination.
Gail Carson Levine
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Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.
Jack Prelutsky
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Zen is not a particular state but the normal state: silent, peaceful, unagitated. In Zazen neither intention, analysis, specific effort nor imagination take place. It's enough just to be without hypocrisy, dogmatism, arrogance - embracing all opposites.
Taisen Deshimaru
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What fascinated my imagination was the tremendous feat, which I felt I should be perfectly able to accomplish.
Yehudi Menuhin
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Wipe out the imagination. Stop pulling the strings. Confine thyself to the present. ...Divide and distribute every object into the causal formal and the material. ...Let the wrong which is done by a man stay there where the wrong was done.
Marcus Aurelius
