"It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory."

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"It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory."

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"Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth."

Cyril Connolly, English Journalist

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"The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem."

Alex Cox, British Director

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"I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

Imagination, Existence, Fiction, Reality

"Dream extravagantly, for God has imbued us with ample imagination to dream out to and across the very periphery of the impossible."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?"

Marquis de Sade, French Novelist

Imagination, Joy, Now

"The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

Imagination, Dignity, End, Importance

"I found myself speaking softly as if I were telling an old tale to a young child. And giving it a happy ending, when all know that tales never end, and the happy ending is but a moment to catch one's breath before the next disaster. But I didn't want to think about that. I didn't want to wonder what would happen next."

Robin Hobb, American Author

Imagination, Storytelling, Hope, Illusion, Life

"It faintly irritated him that Zaphod had to impose some ludicrous fantasy on to the scene to make it work for him. All this Margrathea nonsense seemed juvenile. Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"

Douglas Adams, English Writer

Imagination, Fantasy, Reality, Beauty

"It is always imagined before it is lived. In the world of thought, imaginations are lives, but people kill them before they grow to have life!"

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

Imagination, Life, Thought, Reality

"It is impossible to see the angel unless you first have a notion of it."

James Hillman, American Psychologist

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"Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth."

"The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem."

"I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't."

"Dream extravagantly, for God has imbued us with ample imagination to dream out to and across the very periphery of the impossible."

"The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?"

"The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity."

"It faintly irritated him that Zaphod had to impose some ludicrous fantasy on to the scene to make it work for him. All this Margrathea nonsense seemed juvenile. Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"

"It is always imagined before it is lived. In the world of thought, imaginations are lives, but people kill them before they grow to have life!"

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"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."

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"No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters."

"It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory."