#at

I happen to have a certain fondness for existing--soda wouldn't have that lovely fizzy feeling if you were dead. Think of all the things you would miss: Cartoons, music, movies, video games, music, art, fingernail growth, sex...well, perhaps not sex, depending on how weird your mortician is. ↗

— Jhonen Vasquez

#art

There is no thing that with a twist of the imagination cannot be something else. Porpoises risen in a green sea, the wind at nightfall bending the rose- red grasses and you- in your apron hurrying to catch- say it seems to you to be your son. How ridiculous! You will pass up into a cloud and look back at me, not count the scribbling foolish that put wings at your heels, at your knees. ↗

— William Carlos Williams

#improvisions #kora #imagination

The moment of writing is not an escape...it is only an insistence, through the imagination, upon human ecstasy, and a reminder that such ecstasy remains as much a birthright in this world as misery remains a condition of it. ↗

— Larry Levis

#imagination

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#critic #educate #public

Guilt isn't in cat vocabulary. They never suffer remorse for eating too much, sleeping too long or hogging the warmest cushion in the house. They welcome every pleasurable moment as it unravels and savour it to the full until a butterfly or falling leaf diverts their attention. They don't waste energy counting the number of calories they've consumed or the hours they've frittered away sunbathing. Cats don't beat themselves up about not working hard enough. They don't get up and go, they sit down and stay. For them, lethargy is an art form. From their vantage points on top of fences and window ledges, they see the treadmills of human obligations for what they are - a meaningless waste of nap time. ↗

— Helen Brown

#cleo #helen-brown #art

We are what we imagine. Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves. Our best destiny is to imagine, at least, completely, who and what, and that we are. The greatest tragedy that can befall us is to go unimagined. ↗

— N. Scott Momaday

#imagination

I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're going to do. I'm just going to do it. Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. ↗

— John Green

#nostalgia #imagination

When people go away they vanish, turn to nothing, stop being. They live only in memories, haunting the imagination. ↗

— Dezső Kosztolányi

#memories #people #imagination

Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past. ↗

— Adam Johnson

#imagination

We live in condensations of our imagination ↗

— Terence McKenna

#imagination