Best emotion & imagination Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind. It is not a matter of red cheeks, red lips and supple knees. It is a temper of the will; a quality of the imagination; a vigor of the emotions; it is a freshness of the deep springs of life. Youth means a tempermental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over a life of ease. This often exists in a man of fifty, more than in a boy of twenty. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years; people grow old by deserting their ideals.”

“Every artist knows that there is no such thing as "freedom" in art. The first thing an artist does when he begins a new work is to lay down the barriers and limitations; he decides upon a certain composition, a certain key, a certain relation of creatures or objects to each other. He is never free, and the more splendid his imagination, the more intense his feeling, the farther he goes from general truth and general emotion.”

Source: Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art

“To be an actor or actress, you have to feel on a deep level and tap into emotions that you've never felt before. You're imagining how something would feel. You have to use your imagination so much.”

Feels Use Actors Felt Imagination Levels Emotion Actresses

Author:Elle Fanning

“The dream you are living is your creation. It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time. You have the power to create hell, and you have the power to create heaven. Why not dream a different dream? Why not use your mind, your imagination, and your emotions to dream heaven?”

Mind Different Use Dream Reality Heaven Imagination Emotion Hell Creation Perception Why Not Perception Reality

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.”

Kind Soul Seems Imagination Emotion Poet Paint Extraordinary Enthusiasm Height

Book:Saggi critici

Source: Saggi critici

“Wherever the human mind is healthy and vigorous in all its proportions, great in imagination and emotion no less than in intellect, and not overborne by an undue or hardened pre-eminence of the mere reasoning faculties, there the grotesque will exist in full energy.”

Mind Humans Energy Imagination Emotion Healthy Mere Intellect Reasoning Proportion Faculty Human Mind Vigorous Grotesque Hardened Eminence

Book:The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings

Source: The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings

“Giese was an unemotional man, but then in the study of Solaris emotion is a hindrance to the explorer. Imagination and premature theorizing are positive disadvantages in approaching a planet where-as has become clear-anything is possible... The fact is that in spite of his cautious nature the scrupulous Giese more than once jumped to premature conclusions. Even when on their guard, human beings inevitably theorize.”

Men Humans Facts Imagination Human Beings Emotion Study Clear Planets Conclusion Spite Cautious Disadvantages Explorers Anything Is Possible Premature Hindrance Unemotional Solaris

Author:Stanislaw Lem

“We speak of facts, yet facts exist only partially to us if they are not repeated and re-created through emotions, thoughts and feelings. To me it seemed as if we had not really existed, or only half existed, because we could not imaginatively realize ourselves and communicate to the world, because we had used works of imagination to serve as handmaidens to some political ploy.”

Ifs World Facts Feelings Political Used Speak Realizing Imagination Emotion Half Communicate Thoughts And Feelings Ploy

Book:Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

Source: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

“The ability to discern the thoughts and motives of your heart (especially when experiencing intense emotion) is an essential skill for the believer. Recognizing thoughts and imaginations of the heart is a prerequisite of bringing them 'captive to the obedience of Christ'.”

Heart Christ Imagination Ability Emotion Skills Essentials Believer Intense Obedience Motive Recognizing Captives Prerequisites Intense Emotions

Author:Lou Priolo

“I certainly incorporate facts into my fiction. I take the basic facts from the life of my subject and I pick and choose what to use to construct a really interesting novel. I don't let facts get in the way of my imagination and my exploration of the subject's emotions and relationships.”

Way Facts Use Imagination Interesting Emotion Fiction Novel Subjects Picks Exploration Constructs My Imagination Really Interesting

Author:Melanie Benjamin

“An enormous amount of art and literature is erotic in the sense that it stimulates vague sexual emotions, but it has no pornographic intention or effect because "it leaves everything to the imagination." The consumer has to invent his own images, and it is felt, I do not know with what justification, that there is no harm in this.”

Knows Art Literature Felt Imagination Emotion Effects Amount Intention Harm Enormous Consumers Justification Vague Pornography Erotic

Book:To Hell With Culture

Source: To Hell With Culture

“[While voicing] you have to create a feeling for what happened before a scene, what's going to happen after a scene, and what you are doing in a scene. You need to use your imagination even more and once your emotions are up, then your voice and expressions will go accordingly.”

Needs Use Feelings Happens Voice Imagination Emotion Happened Expression Scene

Author:James Hong

“For me, it's important to experience aesthetic shock, which sets in motion our imagination, our emotions, our feelings, and our thoughts. That's the purpose of a painting and of art in general.”

Art Important Feelings Purpose Imagination Emotion Painting Shock Aesthetic Our Thoughts

Author:Pierre Soulages

“Worship is the submission of all our nature to God. It is the quickening of conscience by His holiness; the nourishment of mind with His truth; the purifying of imagination by His Beauty; the opening of the heart to His love; the surrender of will to His purpose - and all of this gathered up in adoration, the most selfless emotion of which our nature is capable and therefore the chief remedy for that self-centeredness which is our original sin and the source of all actual sin.”

Source: Readings in St. John's Gospel ...

“The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as a kind of self-generating cement which glued his facts together, and his emotions as a kind of dark and obscure designer of those facts. Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life.”

Thinking Writing Kind Book Self Facts Together Imagination Dark Emotion Accounts Regard Conclusion Designer Obscure Cement

Book:Works

Source: Works

“To act in an independent manner, you must begin to initiate action that you want to occur physically by creating it in your own being. This is done by combining belief, emotion and imagination, and forming them into a mental picture of the desired physical result.”

Want Done Action Belief Imagination Results Emotion Creating Independent Combining Initiate

Author:Seth

“Eroticism is mystique; that is, the aura of emotion and imagination around sex. It cannot be 'fixed' by codes of social or moral convenience, whether from the political left or right. For nature's fascism is greater than that of any society. There is a daemonic instability in sexual relations that we may have to accept.”

May Political Left Social Sex Imagination Emotion Accepting Moral Greater Relation Code Fixed Fascism Convenience Auras Instability Mystique

Book:Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

Source: Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

“It's easier to write about a place sometimes when you've left it, when you can apply your imagination to your memory and let your emotions guide the writing about a place.”

Writing Sometimes Left Imagination Memories Emotion Easier Guides Our Memories

Author:John Dufresne

“When we read a literary work (or, in some instances, listen to music) our imagination is stimulated, we feel various emotions, and we arrive at new judgments. These attitudes are brought into relation with many others, including our standing tendencies to think and feel in particular ways, and we try to fit our psychological capacities and responses together.”

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