#imagination

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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I love theatrics and have a huge imagination: Why would I want to sit onstage and sing a bunch of ballads back-to-back? ↗

— Christina Aguilera

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I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings. ↗

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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I've never really had a problem with the imagination level of an audience. They're always smarter and savvier than any studio exec will give them credit for. ↗

— James Van Der Beek

#any #audience #credit #give #had

Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination. ↗

— Daniel Bell

#exercise #human #human imagination #imagination #like

For some reason I can't explain, artist and musicians tend to look younger than our age. Being in music, you need this youthful sense of discovery and wonder for what you're doing and keep your imagination open. That's a youthful way of looking at life and I think that reflects in how you age. ↗

— Joshua Bell

#artist #being #discovery #doing #explain

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. ↗

— William Blake

#eyes #green #imagination #itself #joy

The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#come #enough #experience #forcibly #form

Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure. ↗

— Felix Bloch

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We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

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