Imagination Quotes
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Usually when I'm painting something it takes a lot of focus. I have the room I go into called the white room. In my imagination when I'm really focused I go into that white room and all that's there is me, my painting, and my tools. There's no distraction. When I'm really concentrated I like to have it silent but when I'm doing something that doesn't have to be necessarily perfect, I can just go for it.
Autumn de Forest
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A true picture has the power to set the imagination to work.
Wifredo Lam
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Don't let your imagination take you by surprise.
Jimi Hendrix
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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New York, for decades, offered a perpetual series of 'golden ages' to artists. You constantly had to measure yourself against the best, and you had to watch them, which meant that your imagination and also your sense of what the market could stand got very, very sharp.
Margo Jefferson
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We learn to curb our will and keep our overt actions within the bounds of humanity, long before we can subdue our sentiments and imaginations to the same mild tone.
William Hazlitt
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Intelligence is composed mostly of imagination, insight, things that have nothing to do with reason.
Vivienne Westwood
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A Leader must possess credibility, imagination, enthusiasm, vision, foresight, a sense of timing, a passion for excellence and be willing to share.
William Rosenberg
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I am passionate about tea, running, the idea that we are bound only by the limits of our imaginations, and maple syrup.
Misha Collins
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A lot of people have told me, 'You're not this and so can't play that,' and I can't tell you the amount of times I've been told I'm not sexy. I don't wear my sexiness overtly doesn't mean that I can't become that girl for a role. That's what I do; I become things. Use your imagination.
Anne Hathaway
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Boredom comes simply from ignorance and lack of imagination.
Susan Ertz
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Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.
Jhumpa Lahiri
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I always look on imagination as one of the most powerful things we can cultivate in young people. If they have a good, active imagination, they can cope with life better; they are... able to imagine possibilities and to think around problems.
Michael Pryor
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The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection.
Marcel Proust
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It is only unimaginative persons who can be really astonished. The imagination can always outrun the possible and actual sights and sounds of the world.
Sarah Orne Jewett
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Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other with shame.
Blaise Pascal
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Amanda Davis has a wicked and inspired imagination.
Brady Udall
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The best way to enhance a child's imagination is to make them read.
Ken Spillman
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Needless to say, the business of living interferes with the solitude so needed for any work of the imagination. Here's what Virginia Woolf said in her diary about the sticky issue: "I've shirked two parties, and another Frenchman, and buying a hat, and tea with Hilda Trevelyan, for I really can't combine all this with keeping all my imaginary people going.
Virginia Woolf
