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"A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works."
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"Yeah? Can you draw a skeleton riding a motorcycle with flames coming out of it? And I want a pirate hat on the skeleton. And a parrot on his shoulder. A skeleton parrot. Or maybe a ninja skeleton parrot? No, that would be overkill. But it'd be cool if the biker skeleton could be shooting some ninja throwing stars. That are on fire."
"Imagination governs the world."
"Dreams are our only geography-our native land."
"The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability."
"Reality is not enough for us, that's why we have invented art to create different realities!"
"Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding."
"Books are carnival rides for your imagination."
"Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in."
"Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination."
"In very truth, a wise imagination, which is the presence of the spirit of God, is the best guide that man or woman can have; for it is not the things we see the most clearly that influence us the most powerfully; undefined, yet vivid visions of something beyond, something which eye has not seen nor ear heard, have far more influence than any logical sequences whereby the same things may be demonstrated to the intellect. It is the nature of the thing, not the clearness of its outline, that determines its operation. We live by faith, and not by sight."
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"History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created."
"The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life."
"It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last."
"I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name."
"So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die."
"The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make."
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