"What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?"
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"The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in the significances. Fifty degrees below zero meant eighty-odd degrees of frost. Such fact impressed him as being cold and uncomfortable, and that was all. It did not lead him to meditate upon his frailty as a creature of temperature, and upon man's frailty in general, able only to live within certain narrow limits of heat and cold; and from there on it did not lead him to the conjectural field of immortality and man's place in the universe."
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"One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?"
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"When the past is recaptured by the imagination, breath is put back into life."
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"The personality of the artist, at first a cry or a cadence or a mood and then a fluid, and lambent narrative, finally refines itself out of existence, impersonalises itself, so to speak. The aesthetic image in the dramatic form is life purified in and reprojected from the human imagination. The mystery of aesthetic like that of material creation is accomplished. The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails."
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"The audience's imagination will do a better, more personalized version of the horror than you can actually paint. So that just, you know, with something like "The Blair Witch Project," which is, you know, whatever, it's 89 minutes of people running through the woods and one minute of, you know, a guy standing in a corner."
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"Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry."
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"Of course! The path to heaven doesn't lie down in flat miles. It's in the imagination with which you perceive this world, and the gestures with which you honor it."
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"Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? Instead of letting themselves be carried away by his unequaled imagination, they look for allegories - and come up with nothing but clichés: life is absurd (or it is not absurd), God is beyond reach (or within reach), etc. You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself."
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"Isn't it true that it's not people who meet, but rather the shadows cast by their imaginations?"
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"I think imagination is one of the greatest blessings of life."
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"We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience."
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"Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination."
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"One of the side effects of losing intimacy with God is that at some point we stop doing ministry out of imagination and we begin doing it out of memory."
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"For me a simple message, to think and act with courage, independence and imagination."
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"Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith."
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"Expressing feelings is linked directly with creation... In this ability to tap the sources of feeling and imagination lies the secret of abundance."
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"Storytelling is how we survive, when there's no feed, the story feeds something, it feeds the spirit, the imagination. I can't imagine life without stories, stories from my parents, my culture. Stories from other people's parents, their culture. That's how we learn from each other, it's the best way. That's why literature is so important, it connects us heart to heart."
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"God and the imagination are one."
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"It has that thing - the imagination, and the feeling of happy excitement- I knew when I was a kid."
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