Best conscious & imagination Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The essential fault of surrealism is that it invents without discovering. To make a clam play an accordion is to invent not to discover. The observation of the unconscious, so far as it can be observed, should reveal things of which we have previously been unconscious, not the familiar things of which we have been conscious plus imagination.”

Should Has Beens Play Imagination Essentials Conscious Faults Familiar Observation Unconscious Plus Discovering Surrealism Accordions Clams Familiar Things

Book:Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose

Source: Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose

“The dream world, the true freedom of the imagination, does not open to self-conscious manipulation.”

World Doe Self Dream Imagination Conscious Manipulation Self Conscious True Freedom Dream World

Author:Wendy Beckett

“Don’t use your conscious past. Use your creative imagination to create a past that belongs to your character. I don’t want you to be stuck with your own life. It’s too little.”

Want Littles Character Use Past Imagination Creative Conscious Theatre Stuck Creative Imagination

Author:Stella Adler

“The secondary Imagination I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will, yet still as identical with the primary in the kind of its agency, and differing only in degree, and in the mode of its operation. It dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to recreate: or where this process is rendered impossible, yet still at all events it struggles to idealize and to unify. It is essentially vital, even as all objects (as objects) are essentially fixed and dead.”

Kind Stills Order Process Imagination Struggle Impossible Events Objects Degrees Conscious Former Primaries Operations Fixed Agency Echoes Identical

Book:Biographia Literaria: Top Biography

Source: Biographia Literaria: Top Biography

“Daisy was a consciously happy young woman without any of the usual endowments that make for conscious happiness, money apart. She was not pretty, she was not clever, she had no friends, no talents, nor even an imagination to make her think she was happy when she was really miserable. As she was never miserable, she had no need of an imagination.”

Thinking Needs Young Imagination Talent Conscious Clever Miserable Usual Young Women Daisies No Friends Endowment Not Pretty

Author:Laura Riding

“Why, why, when one writes, does a sort of shackle bind one's imagination? I become conscious of a deadening mediocrity, perhaps a form of mental cowardice, and I long to break free, to let my imagination take wings. It doesn't - yet.”

Writing Long Doe Form Imagination Break Conscious Wings Mediocrity Cowardice My Imagination Shackles

Book:Letters to a Friend

Source: Letters to a Friend

“It was through reading that I discovered the crucial, even sacrosanct place the rituals of drinking held in the American imagination - the ingenious way alcohol seemed to lubricate everything from onerous chitchat to self-conscious sexual advances.”

Way Self Reading Imagination Conscious Drinking Alcohol Ritual Crucial Self Conscious Ingenious

Author:Daphne Merkin

“A library is a home filled with our stories. On every shelf, we see ourselves, experience our collective conscious, describe our dreams and our great longing for times that have passed, the sterling moment of the present and the glorious future known only in our imaginations.”

Moments Stories Home Dream Imagination Known Conscious Filled Longing Library Glorious Collectives Shelves Our Dreams Sterling

Author:Adriana Trigiani

“You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly creations of an imagination that is not conscious of its freaks - in a word, that they are a dream, and you the maker of it. The dream-marks are all present; you should have recognized them earlier.”

Should Dream Imagination Impossible Creation Pure Conscious Should Have Mark Silly Perceive Insanity Makers Freak

Book:The Mysterious Stranger: and Other Stories

Source: The Mysterious Stranger: and Other Stories

“The imagination is an organ of understanding. And the imagination needs all the faculties at hand, all the sensibility, all the conscious and unconscious intelligence it can galvanize to fulfill its luminous mission.”

Needs Hands Understanding Imagination Conscious Missions Unconscious Faculty Organs Sensibility Luminous Conscious And Unconscious

Author:Edward Hirsch

“I think movies are expressions of our imagination; they are expressions of our conscious and of our subconscious. I think that movies can be analyzed the way dreams are analyzed, and sometimes I feel that the viewers or the journalists I discuss the film with are psychoanalysts who are trying to make sense of my dreams.”

Thinking Way Feels Trying Sometimes Dream Film Imagination Expression Conscious Make Sense Journalist Subconscious Viewers

Author:Olivier Assayas

“One of the things meditation gives you is creativity because creativity really comes from the subconscious brain - intuition, imagination - so it's not like you can go there and say, I'm going to go be creative now. Maybe you can, but the real way you get creativity is, you know, you're taking a hot shower and great ideas come to you from the subconscious. Essentially, meditation opens a pipeline between the conscious and the subconscious.”

Giving Real Imagination Brain Creativity Creative Meditation Like You Conscious Hot Intuition Subconscious Be Creative Great Idea

Author:Ray Dalio

“The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.”

Thinking Feelings Action Process Imagination Generations Conscious Karma Unconscious Divorced

Book:Gaia, a Way of Knowing: Political Implications of the New Biology

Source: Gaia, a Way of Knowing: Political Implications of the New Biology

“Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.”

Needs Real Social Interest Imagination History Influence Materials Conscious Crowds Fabric My Imagination Compulsion Social Life Indirect

Book:Selected Essays: 1934-1943

Source: Selected Essays: 1934-1943

“For the writer, the serial killer is, abstractly, an analogue of the imagination's caprices and amorality; the sense that, no matter the dictates and even the wishes of the conscious social self, the life or will or purpose of the imagination is incomprehensible, unpredictable.”

Writing Self Matter Purpose Wish Social Imagination Conscious Killers Unpredictable Serials Serial Killer Caprice Analogue Amorality

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?”

Character Imagination Struggle Imagine Humility Conscious Profession Dreamer

Author:Carson McCullers

“Writing is not a searching about in the daily experience for apt similes and pretty thoughts and images… It is not a conscious recording of the day’s experiences ‘freshly and with the appearance of reality’… The writer of imagination would find himself released from observing things for the purpose of writing them down later. He would be there to enjoy, to taste, to engage the free world, not a world which he carries like a bag of food, always fearful lest he drop something or someone get more than he.”

World Writing Reality Would Be Purpose Enjoy Imagination Taste Conscious Appearance Bags Carrie Fearful Observing Simile Free World Daily Experience Purpose Of Writing

Author:William Carlos Williams

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