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“Imagination transforms one substance into another. It changes what is into what might be, what was into what might have been. Straw becomes gold, gold straw, and neither is more real nor, I submit, more precious than the other. Pebbles turn into luminous pearls and pearls into little gray rocks, both solid and beautiful, both essential. Human beings take shape from clay, angels' wings are spun out of water, fire gives rise to the long tongues of demons, love emerges out of thin air, and the basic elements reconstitute themselves again and again.”

Source: The Man on the Ceiling

“When we read a book, our most essential trait - imagination - is given the opportunity to soar.”

Book Opportunity Given Imagination Essentials Traits Soar

Author:Saint Augustine

“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

“Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.”

Children Reading Imagination Powerful Our Lives Essentials Laughter And Love Love And Laughter

Author:Malachy McCourt

“In our imaginations the adults of our childhood remain extreme, essential - we might say radical since they are the roots that fed luxuriant later systems. Those first bohemians, for instance, stay operatic in memory even though were we to meet them today - well, what would we think, we who've elaborated our eccentricities with a patience, a professionalism they never knew?”

Thinking Firsts Wells Might Today Imagination Memories Childhood Essentials Adults Roots Our Children Extremes Instance Radical Feds Professionalism Eccentricity

Author:Edmund White

“The fine gifts of temperament and imagination which are essential to the production of true poetry are often accompanied by morbid sensibility. The soul capable of ecstasy and transport must pay its price in suffering; he who walks upon the heights must sometimes grovel in the dust.”

Soul Sometimes Suffering Imagination Walks Pay Poet Fine Essentials Capable Productions Dust Height Ecstasy Sensibility Temperament Transport Morbid

Author:Myrtle Reed

“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

“All the different classes of beings which taken together make up the universe are, in the ideas of God who knows distinctly their essential gradations, only so many ordinates of a single curve so closely united that it would be impossible to place others between any two of them, since that would imply disorder and imperfection. Thus men are linked with the animals, these with the plants and these with the fossils which in turn merge with those bodies which our senses and our imagination represent to us as absolutely inanimate.”

Knows Men Two Ideas Different Body Would Be Together Turns Universe Imagination Animal United Class Taken Impossible Essentials Plant Senses Disorder Imperfection Linked Curves Fossils

Author:Gottfried Leibniz

“Acknowledging our love for the living world does something that a library full of papers on sustainable development and ecosystem services cannot: it engages the imagination as well as the intellect. It inspires belief; and this is essential to the lasting success of any movement.”

World Wells Doe Belief Imagination Movement Inspire Development Essentials Paper Library Intellect Lasting Our Love Papers Ecosystems Sustainable Development

Author:George Monbiot

“No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.”

Art Artist Imagination Design Amount Essentials Elements Invention My Imagination Fine Arts Skillful Famous Artist Aquariums Art Education Art And Artists Fine Artists

Book:Edward Hopper, 1882-1967: Hayward Gallery, London, 11 February to 29 March 1981 : a selection from the exhibition Edward Hopper, the art and the artist held at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York from 16 September 1980 to 25 January 1981

Source: Edward Hopper, 1882-1967: Hayward Gallery, London, 11 February to 29 March 1981 : a selection from the exhibition Edward Hopper, the art and the artist held at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York from 16 September 1980 to 25 January 1981

“As the biocentric view suggests, the garden prospers when control is balanced by equal measures of humility and benevolence. A balance is struck. Control, servitude, respect, imagination, pragmatism, an ecological conscience, compliance, and a certain measure of mysticism and altruism, all meld together to provide nurturance.”

Source: Why We Garden: Cultivating a Sense of Place

“For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.”

Writing Order Imagination Fiction Essentials Unconscious Activate

Author:Manuel Puig

“Once evil is individualized, becoming part of everyday life, the way of resisting it also becomes individual. How does the soul survive? is the essential question. And the response is: through love and imagination.”

Way Doe Soul Evil Individual Imagination Becoming Essentials Response Everyday Everyday Life Resisting Tehran Essential Questions

Author:Azar Nafisi

“The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.”

“Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination.”

Interest Imagination Half Exercise Essentials Garden Constant Gardening Gardener Horticulture

Author:Alice Morse Earle