“I think the arts has great potential to create citizens. Citizenship is about the direction your imagination travels. We can't plan or calculate or examine citizenship; it's an imagined thing. Community is an imagined thing. And if your imagination isn't working - and, of course, in oppressed people that's the first thing that goes - you can't imagine anything better. Once you can imagine something different, something better, then you're on your way.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayFirstsArtDifferentCoursesCommunityImaginationImaginePlansCitizensOppressedCitizenshipSomething Better Author:Lee Maracle
“I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.” ThinkingDifferentUseActorsImaginationActingPreparationMy Imagination Author:Edi Gathegi
“It is the wicked deception of love that it begins by making us dwell not upon a woman in the outside world but upon a doll inside our head, the only woman who is always available in fact, the only one we shall ever possess, whom the arbitrary nature of memory, almost as absolute as that of the imagination, may have made as different from the real woman as the real Balbec had been from the Balbec I imagined- a dummy creation that little by little, to our own detriment, we shall force the real woman to resemble.” WorldMayLittlesMadeDifferentRealFactsForceImaginationMemoriesCreationAbsolutesAvailableDeceptionWickedArbitraryDollsOutside WorldDummyReal Women Book:The Guermantes Way Source: The Guermantes Way
“We do live, all of us, on many different levels, and for most artists the world of imagination is more real than the world of the kitchen sink.” WorldDifferentRealArtistImaginationLevelsKitchenDifferent LevelsKitchen Sinks Book:A Circle of Quiet Source: A Circle of Quiet
“I don't think the role of style is different for a woman of any age. Style, to me, is about experimenting with what gives you pleasure, a joyous expression of imagination. I emphasize joyous because too much is written about fashion that takes the pleasure away - clothes that make you look thinner or clothes that make you look younger or, horrors, clothes that make other people envy you or that - double horrors - are "age appropriate".” PeopleThinkingGivingLooksDifferentAgeImaginationPleasureRolesToo MuchWrittenFashionStyleExpressionHorrorClothesEnvyAppropriateJoyous Author:Elizabeth Heyert
“All the manifested world of things and beings are projected by imagination upon the substratum which is the Eternal All-pervading Vishnu, whose nature is Existence-Intelligence; just as the different ornaments are all made out of the same gold.” WorldMadeDifferentImaginationExistenceEternalGoldOrnamentsVishnu Author:Adi Shankara