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I made a real specific decision when I came out of school and most artists were writing about home - if you were a woman, you were writing about being a woman - and I decided not to do that, write about what you know. That is not what I do. I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.

A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.

There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it is essential to be free.

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.

Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.

One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.

I can get very philosophical and ask the questions Keats was asking as a young guy. What are we here for? What's a soul? What's it all about? What is thinking about, imagination?

There is no artist in this world that Does not enjoy the dream that if they have bad reviews now, the story of Keats can redeem them, in their fantasy or imagination, in the future. I think Keats poem Endymion is a really difficult poem, and I am not surprised that a lot of people pulled it apart in a way.

I feel that directors at times are like the janitors on the set. I am the secretary, I am the organizer, I am the maid, and I ask if they have eaten or rested. The best things are always out of your control. It is those moments that surpass the imagination that are thrilling.

To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You are constantly depicting something that Does not exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.

Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin's Courant, it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious distinction of publishing America's last genuine newspaper. Few believe that newspapers in their current printed form will survive.

To me, it is far more efficient to mobilize the imagination. It is far more efficient to hear a creaking step, for example, than to see the face of a monster, which usually looks ridiculous, and where you know that the blood is ketchup.

Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.

I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from.

Castle is a guy living in a fantasy world. He is in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.;Nathan Fillion;imagination 37721;I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book. Actually, I always wanted to be in a comic book. I watched cartoons when I was a kid, too, and both comics and cartoons lit fire in my imagination. This realm holds a lot of interest for me, a lot of passion for me. So to be comic-ized, yeah, that is cool.;Nathan Fillion;imagination 37722;I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.;Thomas Bailey Aldrich;imagination 37723;Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly did not think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.;Tim Robbins;imagination 37724;There is the argument that you can relate to someone who's completely unrelatable. In the way that a director shows you his imagination on a film, then I get to show you my imagination in a big dumb character.;Idris Elba;imagination 37725;The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.;Henry George;imagination 37726;I never in my wildest imagination dreamed that I would somehow become a sports commentator.;Joe Rogan;imagination 37727;It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.;Ursula K. Le Guin;imagination 37728;My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.;Tom Waits;imagination 37729;The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.;Ben Okri;imagination 37730;Politics is the enemy of the imagination.;Ian Mcewan;imagination 37731;True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.;Ian Mcewan;imagination 37732;As an actor you have to have a strong vivid imagination as you are working and when the camera's rolling, but there is certainly a part of you that is aware of real life, that you are making a movie.;John Hawkes;imagination 37733;What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out.;Wynton Marsalis;imagination 37734;I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.;Andrew Wyeth;imagination 37735;I can not work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth and then I can fly free.;Andrew Wyeth;imagination 37736;My books are elegiac in the sense that they are odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.;Richard Russo;imagination 37737;I feel like I am a much better person when I am developing my imagination and my innocence and my vulnerability. I like that version of me better than the version where I am just working on my analytical mind.;Brit Marling;imagination 37738;All my life I have had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly.;Tommy Lee Jones;imagination 37739;You can have 10 bucks to 10 million bucks and if you got a crew, imagination and a lot of people willing to turn in some work next to nothing, you going to have a feature. But you can not get beyond how expensive marketing the movie is, it is so crushing.;Kevin Smith;imagination 37740;All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.;Wislawa Szymborska;imagination 37741;Love is based on imagination.;Olivier Martinez;imagination 37742;My imagination functions much better when I do not have to speak to people.;Patricia Highsmith;imagination 37743;The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination.;Ai Weiwei;imagination 37744;I suppose I am proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.;John Irving;imagination 37745;A clever, imagination, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.;Percy Ross;imagination 37746;I have been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. It is up to you, the only limit is the imagination.;Steve Lacy;imagination 37747;Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, Just watch!

Imagination is the air of mind.

Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination if the United States is one of the most venal nations on Earth, it is also one of the most earnestly idealistic.

The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level.