Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.
Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.
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.
Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.
The conscious process is reflected in the imagination the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude... I hope to make you use your imagination.
Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
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.
I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated.
When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.
The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.
But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.
To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.
The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation.
I love theatrics and have a huge imagination: Why would I want to sit onstage and sing a bunch of ballads back-to-back?
I don't think art is propaganda it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.
There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.
What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.
Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.
Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.
The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.
I think what's really the most ideal thing is for the player themselves, within their own imagination, to carve out what they view as being the essence of the character.
My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I've always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood.
It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.
You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
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.
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.
Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.
A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.
Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.