Imagination Quotes - Page 33

Imagination is the other end of Reality.

So that it must be only by the imagination that Satan has access to the soul, to tempt and delude it, or suggest anything to it. And this seems to be the reason why persons that are under the disease of melancholy are commonly so visibly and remarkably subject to the suggestions and temptations of Satan... Innumerable are the ways by which the mind may be led on to all kind of evil thoughts, by the exciting of external ideas in the imagination.

Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.

Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.

The personality of the artist, at first a cry or a cadence or a mood and then a fluid, and lambent narrative, finally refines itself out of existence, impersonalises itself, so to speak. The aesthetic image in the dramatic form is life purified in and reprojected from the human imagination. The mystery of aesthetic like that of material creation is accomplished. The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

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.

But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.

[There's] nothing special about an actor's imagination, except that he uses it a lot.

Our imagination it is our greatest ally . . . Imagination is a very, very powerful thing. It literally invents the path before you.

You may try — but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and yet to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination.

I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.

There are no shortcuts in life - only those we imagine.

DAISY: I never knew you were such a realist-I thought you were more poetic. Where's your imagination? There are many sides to reality. Choose the one that's best for you. Escape into the world of imagination.

I deserved to find pleasure that surpassed my imagination, better than any I had experienced.

Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin's 'Courant,' it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious distinction of publishing America's last genuine newspaper. Few believe that newspapers in their current printed form will survive.

I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.

Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react.

The desire to see and the desire to ratify what one has seen are desires at odds with one another, if only because they proceed from separate places in the imagination.

The Master and Margarita is my favorite. To me it’s the greatest exploration of the human imagination.

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.

Human imagination is not simply our means of reaching out to God but God's means of manifesting himself to us.

Active imagination requires a state of reverie, half-way between sleep and waking.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

Everyone in your life is a figment of your imagination--ev en you.