#imaginative

Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country. ↗

— Robert Hewison

#country #death #dedicated #education #fine

There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that the poet's metaphors should spoil his words for the ordinary uses of man. ↗

— William H. Hunt

#distorted #features #his #imaginative #man

Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living. ↗

— Alice Sebold

#haunting #imaginative #inspirational #murder #personal-growth

What would your shoes say about the things you do everyday? ↗

— Sherley Mondesir-Prescott

#children #children-s-books #humor #humour #illustrated-books

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. ↗

— Cecil Beaton

#anything #assert #be different #commonplace #creatures

Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

#ashamed #even #evolved #human #imaginative

There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#difficult #embrace #few #few people #fiction

I had very strong feelings, so the chance to make a film that deals in an imaginative way with stuff you care tremendously about is a real high. It's a really amazing thing to be able to do. ↗

— Jonathan Demme

#about #amazing #amazing thing #care #chance

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#conversation #last #refuge #unimaginative #weather

Broadway purists may deplore the influx of movie-spinoff musicals in recent years, wishing someone would turn off the popcorn machine and let more imaginative brainstorms blow through. ↗

— James Wolcott

#broadway #deplore #imaginative #influx #machine