My Imagination Quotes - Page 9

• Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.

  Henry Miller

  God, Voice, Imagination

  Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.341, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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  I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

  Michelangelo

  Life, Art, Creativity

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• Narrative nonfiction was not my forte. I always wanted to let my imagination run free, and the facts sometimes got in the way. At one point I wanted to illustrate Jack Prelutsky's enchanting poems. Unable to do that, I started devising and improvising my own poems, very raw at first. I immersed myself in verse, writing reams of stuff until it gelled.

  Douglas Florian

  Running, Writing, Imagination

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I myself was terrified during the Second World War. The war started when I was six, and I was so sure that we were going to be bombed and killed. My imagination is my biggest plus and my worst minus.

  Patricia Reilly Giff

  War, Imagination, World

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• I've talked to a few writers who have had childhood illnesses. The sense of convalescence - the feeling that you're waiting to become a real person - is quite an interesting thing. You're seeing all of your friends doing amazing things and you're just there, in a void, feeling a bit stupid. I wouldn't be able to say what I'd have been like without it, but maybe I'd be incredibly high-powered and successful. It also forced me to spend most of my time in my imagination.

  Evie Wyld

  Real, Stupid, Successful

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I sort of jumped out of movies and into the lifeboat of comics. I loved it right away. It was the opposite of film school. Whatever was in my imagination could end up in the finished product. There were just no limitations.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  School, Opposites, Imagination

  "Saga and Y: The Last Man writer Brian K. Vaughan talks about making comics his own way". Interview with Oliver Sava, www.avclub.com. November 04, 2012.

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• I'll find something in what I read that snags my imagination in emotional terms; it resonates with me for reasons more complicated than just that it seems like it would make a good story.

  Jim Shepard

  Emotional, Imagination, Stories

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I just try to put myself in the sense of being a character, sometimes male. I suppose I just like the idea of trying to be different people coming from all kinds of different angles. Most of it was just from my imagination.

  Kate Bush

  Character, Ideas, Imagination

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 23, 2011.

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• When I got the beat, in my imagination I was catapulted into this club where all the boys and girls are looking hot and wearing amazing clothes, and there's this girl dancing and looking better than me.

  Katy B

  Girl, Boys, Clothes

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think writers have to be able to enjoy solitude rather than just endure it. I've always enjoyed being left alone with my imagination, ever since I was a kid.

  Peter Robinson

  Kids, Thinking, Imagination

  Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2008.

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• I was very withdrawn and definitely played with dolls well into eighth grade. But I was the oldest of nine, and that grounded me in a way that I don't think I would have been grounded otherwise. So I was able to - or forced to - function practically. But I think, by nature, I was someone who lived in my head, in my imagination.

  Susan Sarandon

  Thinking, Imagination, Dolls

  Interview with George Saunders, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 27, 2016.

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• Philip Larkin didn't write for several years before his life ended. And when he was asked why he didn't write, he said the muse deserted him. And when I read that, it really had a profound effect upon me, sort of scared me. So that's why I think I have no right to assume that some thought is going to come... But I think, in my imagination, if it is it, there will probably be something else I'm interested in.

  Paul Simon

  Writing, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I used to be too subjective, and I was always tempted to find my inner self in the exterior and dissipate my imagination on other people and on life.

  Oskar Kokoschka

  Self, People, Imagination

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• Ideas for songs can come from something as simple as a photograph and letting my imagination run wild on an old photograph that I found, or to a film that I have seen or to just most of the time, just daily walking through life and keeping your eyes open.

  PJ Harvey

  Running, Song, Eye

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• I find that biographical material holds me back, hampers my creative process, cramps my imagination.

  Yuriy Tarnawsky

  Imagination, Creative, Hamper

  "No Tall Tales". Interview with David Moscovich, www.raintaxi.com. 2012.

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• I love working with technology because it allows me to follow my imagination and to invent new things.

  Tod Machover

  Technology, Imagination, New Things

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I need paper and pen to release my imagination. I can't create on a machine.

  Brian Pinkerton

  Imagination, Needs, Machines

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• I have visualised my imagination so clearly and so consistently that it has manifested itself into my reality.

  Conor McGregor

  Reality, Imagination, Consistently

  Twitter post from Nov 05, 2014

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• I love audio books, and when I paint I'm always listening to a book. I find that my imagination really takes flight in the painting process when I'm listening to audio books.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Book, Imagination, Listening

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• Growing up, Catholic church really was such an incubator for my imagination, because all of those mysteries felt embedded in this insanely green, tropical landscape: the ocean nearby, the giant banyan trees. It all felt part of one seamless mystery to me.

  Karen Russell

  Growing Up, Ocean, Imagination

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I love young adult fantasies. While I say that, I have not seen all of the Twilight and Harry Potter movies. But I've read all of the books, and I love them. I love them because I enjoy being transported to a different world and having my imagination challenged. That's a huge part of what we do as actors. We have to imagine ourselves in a different world. And when you are in a young adult fantasy, it challenges you in the best way.

  Viola Davis

  Book, Love You, Twilight

  Source: aalbc.com

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• My fictional worlds were those of a fabulist, of an intellectual fantasist. I was the lawgiver, and the countries and inhabitants of my imagination were answerable to me. If I wished for a man to levitate; to enter another's story by rowboat or by intoning a sentence or by performing a shadow-puppet play; if I wanted him to become a swarm of intelligent elementary particles and enter the Internet and travel into the past and far into the future, it was so.

  Norman Lock

  Country, Intelligent, Past

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge.

  Robert Fulghum

  Hope, Laughter, Grief

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It”, p.8, Ivy Books

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• I hate to recreate the whole world into my imagination.

  Ludivine Sagnier

  Hate, Imagination, World

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• You can think about red. You can think about pink. You can think up a horse. Oh, the THINKS you can think!

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Creativity, Thinking

  "Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!". Book by Dr. Seuss, August 21, 1975.

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