Imagination Quotes
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I think about freedom and the urgency around our imagination. If you can't imagine it, you can't fight for it.
DeRay Mckesson -
When I began to write as a very young person in a rigidly racist and inhibited colonial society, I felt, as many others did, that I existed marginally on the edge of the world of ideas, of imagination and beauty. These, taking shape in poetry and fiction, drama, painting and sculpture, were exclusive to that distant realm known as 'overseas'.
Nadine Gordimer
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Art is one of the prime ways we have of opening ourselves and going beyond ourselves. That's what art is: it's the product of the human being in the world and imagination, all coming together.
Ali Smith -
The American imagination has never been able to fully recover from its white-supremacist beginnings.
Claudia Rankine -
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
Henry Ward Beecher -
I fear, Master Zamp, that you are a victim to your own perfervid imagination.
Jack Vance -
Mr. Bergman had a great imagination and saw the possibilities within every one of his actors, and he gave us great challenges. It was very inspiring.
Max von Sydow -
It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.
Leonard Orr
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I think cinema is the memory and the imagination of the country. Take the memory and imagination out of an individual, and he stops being an individual. I think it's the same thing for a country.
Philippe Falardeau -
I really like dating stories, like in Betty and Veronica comics; I like David Lynch and H.P. Lovecraft for the dark gut-wrenching stuff, and I'm inspired by Miyazaki's films for the subtle heart-warming moments, as well as the moments that blew up my imagination.
Fred Seibert -
Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.
Christopher Isherwood -
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
John Muir -
The real giants have always been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas.
William Bernbach -
The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.
Elizabeth Drew
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I've always loved comic books. As a kid, I used to read cowboy stories and historical comics about other worlds, unknown places that would take me out of myself and which helped to develop my imagination.
James Herbert -
Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
Christian Nestell Bovee -
There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.
William Godwin -
I love music because you can create a world through your records. I have total control over what I do and what I wear. It's like my own world out of my imagination rather than someone giving me lines.
Jane Badler -
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
Tom Stoppard -
My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it. They said that I couldn't be an actress because I would be taller than all my leading men, so I thought I would be a writer instead.
Nicole Kidman
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This alone is to be feared - the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of the spirit. The death of the body is to that, I think, a little thing.
Winifred Holtby -
Her imagination is rich and vibrant. I have a great love and respect for Rita.
George Chakiris -
If you cannot imagine with the mind's eye much more than you can see with the mortal eye, you have a very poor imagination indeed.
William Blake -
If you're using your imagination, you tend to look into the past for ideas.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings