#imagination

He brought imagination to the story of the Creation. ↗

— Harvey Keitel

#creation #imagination #story

Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage. ↗

— Ellen Terry

#asked #first #i #imagination #necessary

The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

#bring #how #imagination #just #language

I don't know if Jim was a major part of that or not. He is one of a small group of real storytellers. He has enormous imagination and ability to write. I'm glad he's coming back. It's going to be good for the show. ↗

— Matthew Ashford

#back #coming #enormous #glad #going

To put up a show is to face life's injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination. ↗

— Luigi Barzini

#brave #desperate #face #few #imagination

When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference. ↗

— Samuel Dash

#difference #doing #imagination #initiative #make

Imagination has brought mankind through the Dark Ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams - day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain-machinery whizzing - are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization. ↗

— L. Frank Baum

#civilization #discovery #dreams #imagination #invention

We have inhabited both the actual and the imaginary realms for a long time. But we don't live in either place the way our parents or ancestors did. Enchantment alters with age, and with the age. We know a dozen Arthurs now, all of them true. The Shire changed irrevocably even in Bilbo's lifetime. Don Quixote went riding out to Argentina and met Jorge Luis Borges there. Plus c'est la même chose, plus ça change. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#fiction #imagination #age

Who but the artist has the power to open man up, to set free the imagination? The others - priest, teacher, saint, statesman, warrior - hold us to the path of history. They keep us chained to the rock, that the vultures may eat out our hearts. It is the artist who has the courage to go against the crowd; he is the unrecognized "hero of our time" - and of all time. ↗

— Henry Miller

#artists #freedom #imagination #art

In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance but knowledge, an understanding of the necessity of local differences, and respect. Respect, I think, always implies imagination - the ability to see one another, across our inevitable differences, as living souls. (pg. 181, Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community) ↗

— Wendell Berry

#imagination #knowledge #respect #art