It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
Copy Quote View & ShareIt's a failure of imagination if you can only write what you know - we have to be able to imagine different worlds.
Copy Quote View & ShareYour heart will be shattered by sorrow if you force it to live in tomorrow's ephemeral imagination - world instead of in today's eternal reality - now.
Copy Quote View & ShareFeynman once said, 'Science is imagination in a straitjacket.' It is ironic that in the case of quantum mechanics, the people without the straitjackets are generally the nuts.
Copy Quote View & ShareIllustrations can be a big window: a looking glass into the author's imagination.
Copy Quote View & ShareI feel like I'm a much better person when I'm developing my imagination and my innocence and my vulnerability. I like that version of me better than the version where I'm just working on my analytical mind.
Copy Quote View & ShareI am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.
Copy Quote View & ShareAll of the Antilles, every island, is an effort of memory: every mind, every racial biography culminating in amnesia and fog. Pieces of sunlight through the fog and sudden rainbows, arcs-en-ciel. That is the effort, the labour of the Antillean imagination, rebuilding its gods from bamboo frames, phrase by phrase.
Copy Quote View & ShareAll the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
Copy Quote View & ShareI think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.
Copy Quote View & ShareI think what's really the most ideal thing is for the player themselves, within their own imagination, to carve out what they view as being the essence of the character.
Copy Quote View & ShareA great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.
Copy Quote View & ShareDeath? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.
Copy Quote View & ShareWhen I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
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