3 December 2020 William Morris A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.
3 December 2020 Gustavo Dudamel In my imagination yes, I remember, when I was six years old, I was conducting all this concert in my house. But now it’s real.
3 December 2020 Edmund Wilson The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
3 December 2020 Geraldine Brooks The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that as scaffolding, and then letting imagination build the structure that fills in those things we can never find out for sure.
3 December 2020 Glen Hansard Our imagination just needs space. It’s all it needs, that moment where you just sort of stare into the distance where your brain gets to sort of somehow rise up.
3 December 2020 Milan Kundera You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.
3 December 2020 Miranda Otto If there is a book that the script came from you have to read it, you have to see what you can get out of it: mood, back story and things that may not even be in the film. They kick off your imagination and broaden the character, I think.
3 December 2020 Robert South It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.
3 December 2020 Brit Marling I feel like I’m a much better person when I’m developing my imagination and my innocence and my vulnerability. I like that version of me better than the version where I’m just working on my analytical mind.
3 December 2020 George Henry Lewes Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.
3 December 2020 Steve Lacy I’ve been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. It’s up to you, the only limit is the imagination.
3 December 2020 Carl Jung All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
3 December 2020 Peter Jackson No film has captivated my imagination more than ‘King Kong.’ I’m making movies today because I saw this film when I was 9 years old.
3 December 2020 Joyce Carol Oates Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind.
3 December 2020 Simon Pegg I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack.
3 December 2020 Laura Miller But there is so much more to do for the city we love… a Dallas with roads as strong as our businesses, parks as beautiful as our children, a downtown as tall as our imagination.
3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
3 December 2020 Maxwell Maltz For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.
3 December 2020 Edgar Degas It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one’s memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
3 December 2020 Epictetus Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
3 December 2020 J. K. Rowling However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.
3 December 2020 Andrew Motion I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I’m likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination.
3 December 2020 Percy Ross A clever, imagination, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.
3 December 2020 Henry George The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.
3 December 2020 Daphne Zuniga I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination.
