#imagined

The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not there physically at all. It is an illusion, a piece of magic, so that what you see is not what you see. ↗

— Philip Guston

#imagined #magic #mind #moves #painting

Some people just come in, do it and they know it's right. It turns out better than you imagined it was going to sound. When that happens, you take it as a gift. ↗

— Jules Shear

#come #gift #going #happens #imagined

Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#anticipations #cannot #day #day to day #each

What is now proved was once only imagined. ↗

— William Blake

#now #once #only #proved

I started looking at small companies that were running a sort of virtual reality cottage industry: I had imagined that I would just put on a helmet and be somewhere else - that's your dream of what it's going to be. ↗

— Thomas Dolby

#cottage #dream #else #going #had

If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#beggars #even #had #hate #i

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#always #i #imagined #kind #library

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined. ↗

— Johnny Carson

#continue #could #doing #enjoy #had

I imagined that it might be awkward to talk to your wife about her performance, so going into it I was a little nervous. But doing it was actually a wonderfully inspiring experience. ↗

— Lasse Hallstrom

#actually #awkward #doing #experience #going

The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England. ↗

— Peter Stuyvesant

#commissioners #design #directed #england #force