“Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.”
— Vincent Van Gogh
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We cast away priceless time in dreams,
“We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.”
— Judy Garland
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Where there is no imagination there is
“Where there is no imagination there is no horror.”
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Knowledge is a polite word for dead
“Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.”
— e. e. cummings
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Writing gives me the opportunity to explore
“Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.”
— Jack Prelutsky
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True change takes place in the imagination.
“True change takes place in the imagination.”
— Thomas Moore
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Cowardice… is almost always simply a lack
“Cowardice… is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.”
— Ernest Hemingway
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Imagination and fiction make up more than
“Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.”
— Simone Weil
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There is no connection between the political
“There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.”
— Lionel Trilling
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The True sign of intelligence is not
“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”
— Albert Einstein
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To regard the imagination as metaphysics is
“To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.”
— Wallace Stevens
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