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Love wasn't rational; there was no proof that it even existed outside of people's imaginings. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#imagination

Plato said: 'He who approaches the temple of the Muses without inspiration in the belief that craftmanship alone suffices, will remain a bungler and his presumptuous poetry will be obscured by the songs of the maniacs.' ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#art

Shut the F--- up and create your f---ing art. ↗

— Garrett Robinson

#art

Asakawa himself didn't much care if the company made money or lost it. All that mattered to him was whether or not the work was engaging. No matter how easy a job was physically, if it didn't involve imagination, it usually ended up exhausting you. ↗

— Koji Suzuki

#imagination

Methought the germ of it was dead in me! Oh, Hester, thou art my better angel! I seem to have flung myself— sick, sin-stained, and sorrow-blackened— down upon these forest leaves, and to have risen up all made anew, and with new powers to glorify Him that hath been merciful! This is already the better life! Why did we not find it sooner? ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#joy #love #art

The difference between childhood and adulthood, Vic had come to believe, was the difference between imagination and resignation. You traded one for the other and lost your way. ↗

— Joe Hill

#imagination

I can’t bear these accounts I read in the Times and elsewhere of these poetry slams, in which various young men and women in various late-spots are declaiming rant and nonsense at each other. The whole thing is judged by an applause meter which is actually not there, but might as well be. This isn’t even silly; it is the death of art. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#poetry #art

Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games. ↗

— J Allard

#games #more #more people #movies #music

Imagine the state of one's mind if they were to recall its details. All those months cocooned and then the onslaught of this ugly world. Lights and noise and strangeness. It's no wonder we scream with terror at our birth. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#being-born #birth #imagination

Did if feel like jumping off a cliff when he kissed you? I imagine it did. ↗

— Na

#love #risk #taking-a-leap #imagination