#imagination

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it. ↗

— Simone Weil

#because #compulsions #conscious #crowd #dynamic

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#almost #future #imagination #much #past

Picture to yourself the most beautiful girl imaginable! She was so beautiful that there would be no point, in view of my meagre talent for storytelling, in even trying to put her beauty into words. That would far exceed my capabilities, so I'll refrain from mentioning whether she was a blonde or a brunette or a redhead, or whether her hair was long or short or curly or smooth as silk. I shall also refrain from the usual comparisons where her complexion was concerned, for instance milk, velvet, satin, peaches and cream, honey or ivory, Instead, I shall leave it entirely up to your imagination to fill in this blank with your own ideal of feminine beauty. ↗

— Walter Moers

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The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#critical #imagination #imitates #spirit

The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination. ↗

— Richard Wright

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I can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth; and then I can fly free. ↗

— Andrew Wyeth

#completely #fly #foot #free #i

I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare. ↗

— Andrew Wyeth

#aloud #became #especially #father #history

There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination. ↗

— William Godwin

#imagination #love #no love #passion #where

Few people have the imagination for reality. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#few people #imagination #people #reality

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever. ↗

— Nadine Gordimer

#brand #censorship #experienced #forever #imagination