Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
To put up a show is to face life's injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination.
I find my characters and stories in many varied places; sometimes they pop out of newspaper articles, obscure historical texts, lively dinner party conversations and some even crawl out of the dusty remote recesses of my imagination.
Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.
You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.
The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.
I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there's nothing quite like country dark, which was really black. And as a child, your imagination runs wild.
For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
Woman is the sun, an extraordinary creature, one that makes the imagination gallop.
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.
They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my own experience of a wide variety of people.
Without imagination, I don't think there's any progress.
An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.
I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be.
Cinema is a world of imagination.
I had never been a comic book person before, really, because I had no access to them. Once I had access, I thought that these are just another avenue for telling stories and delving into the imagination.
I wanted to be her; I wanted to write her. Red Sonja became anchored in my imagination like a mountain.
Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.
I don't like this idea of Method. I come from that school, but what I was taught was that it's your imagination. You do your homework, and you use your imagination.
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.
With your imagination, you can go anywhere or do anything, anything is possible.
It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.
Courses in the humanities, in particular, often seem impractical, but they are vital, because they stretch your imagination and challenge your mind to become more responsive, more critical, bigger.
The imagination is an innate gift, but it needs refinement and cultivation; this is what the humanities provide.
The appeal of perfume is that it is at once ephemeral and empowering. It creates a shimmering invisible armor that lingers in a room long after its wearer has gone and infuses our imagination with a subtle power, hinting at a hidden identity.
I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.
I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination.
Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse.
Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.
Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.
Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.
I don't know if Jim was a major part of that or not. He is one of a small group of real storytellers. He has enormous imagination and ability to write. I'm glad he's coming back. It's going to be good for the show.
People know that they're going to see something which is entertaining but challenging as well because of the form it's in. It's dance theatre and it requires you to use your imagination - it's not straight forward.
The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasn't a small town. It was a college town. It had record stores and was a liberal place.
Human imagination is so much more potent than anything we could put down in words.
Laughter is a Trojan horse to enter into direct contact with the unconscious, strike the imagination, and trigger visceral reactions.
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.
I mean, it's fine when you're a kid and someone runs into the playground and goes, 'I've got this great game of pretend,' and you play... As an actor, getting to play, getting to use your imagination and be childish - it is weird but it's wonderful.
I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.
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