- Nov 07, 2020
Imagination Quotes
The inner world that fuels everything made real.
These imagination quotes link creativity to childhood spontaneity, personal experience, and even economic theory, with one quote suggesting that imagination in economics lags behind the systems it studies. Musicians here describe imagination as something that has to stay current to keep capturing attention. See Dream for a related theme.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Francis
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Few cities have been more definitely impressed upon the imagination of the world than San Francisco, this gray-hilled city on the peninsula by the hospitable bay, where Saint Francis protects the ships as he protected the birds of Assisi.
- People
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People seem to have trouble with the imagination. They can't believe that you can just pull things out of your brain like that.
- New
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For novelists, the imagination is everything. The trick is to guide one's imagination using research. I love using old maps. When I wrote my novels on London and New York, I found wonderful historical atlases. Paris has the most lavish maps of all.
- Invention
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No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
- Creativity
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Companies like Google and Facebook may offer jobs allowing or requiring imagination and creativity, but the whole of Silicon Valley accounts for only 3 percent of national income and a smaller percentage of national employment.
- Conceive
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The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
- New
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The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.
- Beautiful
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An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.
- Feelings
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
- Long
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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.
- Influence
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There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
- Copy
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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.
- Preparation
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- Nov 07, 2020