The American imagination has never been able to fully recover from its white-supremacist beginnings.
Growing up, I had a very vivid imagination and Leonardo was like my best imaginary friend that I spoke to. When things were tough, or I was scared in an unsafe environment, I always imagined that the Ninja Turtles would come to the rescue.
From a very young age, stories fuelled my imagination in the most wonderful way.
The source and center of all man’s creative power… is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.
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.
Music inspires contemplation, dreams, and the imagination.
Synthesizers can be programmed with more imagination than a real, ‘human’ performance. It’s a joyful thing.
The Constitution did not even go into effect when Washington was inaugurated first President. The wisest men knew that it was only a figment of the imagination then.
As children, we have vivid imaginations. We stay up late waiting for Santa Claus, dream of becoming president, and have ideas that defy physics. Then something happens. As we grow older, we start editing our imagination.
I don’t have a great imagination to share something with you that you don’t know, so it’s about interpreting things – a dialogue.
Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
A fully engaged imagination is essential to the spiritual practice of the Tibetan Buddhist Vajrayana School, whose artistic tradition is in service of consciousness transformation.
It’s what you don’t see that keeps you on the edge of your seat in any kind of film – leave it to the imagination of the viewer.
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
Death? 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.
We have to learn not to feel guilty about letting our imagination browse around, and you know, in writing fiction particularly. But I think, in any kind of writing, we have to learn to allow ourselves to approach it in a contemplative way.
True change takes place in the imagination.
A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur; that the computer mouse is a hotrod; that the box is a cave; that the rawhide is a torch… or a baton… or something.
On ‘Into The Wild’ I spent months risking my life and on ‘Speed Racer’ I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self, but I sure had to use my imagination.
I just have a relationship with my imagination. It’s like my friend, almost.
For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
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.
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.
