Keith Johnstone Quotes

Imagination is as effortless as perception, unless we think it might be ‘wrong’, which is what our education encourages us to believe.

Keith Johnstone

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• Imagination is as effortless as perception, unless we think it might be ‘wrong’, which is what our education encourages us to believe.

  

  Keith Johnstone
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  • Thinking
  • Imagination