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“The great end of all arts is to make an impression on the imagination and the feeling. The imitation of nature frequently does this. Sometimes it fails and something else succeeds.”

Doe Art Ends Sometimes Feelings Purpose Imagination Failing Succeed Art Is Impression Imitation

Book:The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

“Artists are... stubborn egomaniacs who are mysteriously - and sometimes correctly - certain that the world needs to know all about the figments of their imaginations and who gear their lives to getting those figments into circulation.”

Knows World Needs Sometimes Artist Certain Imagination Ego Stubborn Gears Circulation Figments Egomaniacs

Author:Jon Pareles

“In order to be as free as I possibly can, in my own imagination, I can't take positions that are closed. Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it, to open doors, sometimes, not even closing the book -- leaving the endings open for reinterpretation, revisitation, a little ambiguity.”

World Writing Littles Has Beens I Can Book Sometimes Done Order Imagination My Own Doors Position Leaving Closing Ambiguity Articulation Reinterpretation

Author:Toni Morrison

“It is not that love sometimes makes mistakes, but that it is, essentially, a mistake. We fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfections on to another person. One day the phantasmagoria vanishes, and with it love dies.”

Persons Sometimes Dies Fall Imagination Mistake One Day Projects Perfection Falling In Love Making Mistakes

Book:Einstein Intersection

Source: Einstein Intersection

“That youthful fervor, which is sometimes called enthusiasm, but which is a heat of imagination subsequently discovered to be inconsistent with the experience of actual life.”

Sometimes Imagination Enthusiasm Heat Inconsistent Fervor Actual Life

Book:Endymion

Source: Endymion

“It has been noticed that people who are not parents often have a peculiar fondness for children. This is sometimes attributed to a very beautiful nostalgia for a gift denied to them - dream-children, flowers that have only bloomed in imagination - but we think it is rather because they have not the faintest idea how dreadful children are.”

People Thinking Children Has Beens Ideas Sometimes Dream Beautiful Parent Imagination Flower Nostalgia Peculiar Denied Very Beautiful Fondness

Author:Angela Thirkell

“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

“But sometimes what we call 'memory' and what we call 'imagination' are not so easily distinguished.”

Sometimes Imagination Memories Distinguished

Author:Leslie Marmon Silko

“Sometimes good television doesn't depend on money, it depends on imagination and good people directing, casting and doing the job with talented people.”

People Sometimes Jobs Imagination Television Depends Good People Casting

Author:Elisabeth Sladen

“The story of scientific discovery has its own epic unity-a unity of purpose and endeavour-the single torch passing from hand to hand through the centuries; and the great moments of science when, after long labour, the pioneers saw their accumulated facts falling into a significant order-sometimes in the form of a law that revolutionised the whole world of thought-have an intense human interest, and belong essentially to the creative imagination of poetry.”

Source: Watchers of the Sky

“I'm sometimes asked how I would like to be remembered. I've had a diverse career as a writer, underwater explorer, space promoter and science populariser. Of all these, I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well.”

Want Wells Sometimes Imagination Space Careers Reader Hopefully Remembered Diverse Explorers Underwater Promoters

Author:Arthur C. Clarke

“The imagination doesn't crop annually like a reliable fruit tree. The writer has to gather whatever's there: sometimes too much, sometimes too little, sometimes nothing at all. And in the years of glut there is always a slatted wooden tray in some cool, dark attic, which the writer nervously visits from time to time; and yes, oh dear, while he's been hard at work downstairs, up in the attic there are puckering skins, warning spots, a sudden brown collapse and the sprouting of snowflakes. What can he do about it?”

Writing Years Littles Sometimes Hard Imagination Dark Too Much Tree Skins Fruit Dear Spots Brown Warning Collapse Crops Snowflake Attics Trays Fruit Trees

Author:Julian Barnes

“Storytelling is all about using the imagination, for me at least it is. That's why I'm bored sometimes to see movies. I'm bored to see TV. I never see TV. I see news sometimes. I'm sorry to say, I work in this business and I love working in it, but I haven't seen a movie in so many years.”

Years Sometimes Imagination Havens Tvs News Sorry Storytelling Bored I'm Sorry

Author:Peter Stormare

“I want to try to apply my abilities sometimes to make families happy, so I have to make movies at a venue that are not gratuitously violent, that are not using bullets and bloodshed, but are using things like magic and fantasy and enchantment and the imagination. To me that's just all positive stuff. But I am eclectic and I still like to make movies for the midnight audience as well.”

Want Trying Wells Stills Sometimes Stuff Imagination Ability Fantasy Audience Magic Violent Bullets Midnight Enchantment Venues Bloodshed Eclectic

Author:Nicolas Cage

“Sometimes a musical imagination is as important as singing itself, you know, the voice, what you do vocally, the vowels. So there's a percussiveness that can sometimes be quite energizing and useful in singing as an expressive device.”

Knows Important Sometimes Voice Imagination Singing Musical Devices Expressive Vowels Energizing

Author:Dolora Zajick

“When I walk into a market I may see a different cut of meat or an unusual vegetable and think, ‘I wonder how it would be if I took the recipe for that sauce I had in Provence and put the two together?’ So I go home and try it out. Sometimes my idea is a success and sometimes it is a flop, but that is how recipes are born. There really are not recipes, only millions of variations sparked by someone’s imagination and desire to be a little creative and different. American cooking is built, after all, on variations of old recipes from around the world.”

“Technology tends to fuel the imagination. People with a technological bent can get excited by sometimes the most hazardous technologies, if they think they can harness them safely.”

People Ifs Thinking Sometimes Imagination Technology Excited Fuel Technological Bent Harness

Author:John Lindsay

“To love a swamp, however, is to love what is muted and marginal, what exists in the shadows, what shoulders its way out of mud and scurries along the damp edges of what is most commonly praised. And sometimes its invisibility is a blessing. Swamps and bogs are places of transition and wild growth, breeding grounds, experimental labs where organisms and ideas have the luxury of being out of the spotlight, where the imagination can mutate and mate, send tendrils into and out of the water.”

Source: Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination

“Take imagination breaks... Relaxed attention is one of the most important states of mind for creativity, and sometimes it has to be learned.”

Mind Important Sometimes States Imagination Attention Break Creativity State Of Mind Relaxed

Book:The New Creative Artist

Source: The New Creative Artist

“Microsoft does not dominate the software industry by any stretch of the imagination. We have lots of very able competitors who keep us constantly vigilant, and sometimes they beat us to the punch. Microsoft's success to date is based solely on the fact that people like Microsoft software.”

People Doe Sometimes Facts Able Imagination Industry Beats Software Competitors Microsoft Vigilant

Author:Bill Gates

“Form is burden. Sometimes being part of the system enslaves the mind and greatly limits the imagination by enslaving it to form. Form is a burden to the mind that sees no limits. Form is a prison for the soul who sees possibilities outside the lines and wishes to test them.”

Mind Soul Sometimes Form Wish Imagination Lines Possibility Limits Tests Prison Burden

Author:Suzy Kassem

“When you're reading something, your imagination goes and you see it in your mind. Sometimes my instincts with that are right, and sometimes they're wrong.”

Mind Sometimes Reading Imagination Instinct

Author:Alexandra Breckenridge

“I've never suffered from writer's block. I have plenty of ideas, sometimes too many. I've always had a strong imagination. If it dries up I'll stop and look for another career.”

Ifs Looks Ideas Sometimes Strong Imagination Careers Block Plenty Writer's Block

Author:J. G. Ballard

“[T]hese last few days where I've moped around damn near depressed for real, because of people who do not exist. Not really. I can buy them Christmas presents, but there is no way to send them. Sometimes I feel like I should be able to walk into the next room and there they will be, but they won't. These people do not exisit as flesh and blood, but there are different kinds of reality, and there are days when imagination feels very, very real.”

People Way Feels Should Kind I Can Different Real Sometimes Reality Able Lasts Next Imagination Walks Rooms Blood Flesh Damn Different Kinds Flesh And Blood Christmas Present Mopeds

Author:Laurell K. Hamilton

“9/11 was just an enormous event in so many senses of the word - I mean, we are still in the "post-9/11 era" and perhaps will be forever? Sometimes it seems like it. It was such a monstrous act of imagination over anything else - the actual fatalities, while awful, were not what distinguished the event from others.”

Mean Stills Sometimes Seems Imagination Forever Events Senses Enormous Awful Eras Posts Distinguished Monstrous Fatality

Author:Porochista Khakpour

“Sometimes it bursts from your imagination fully formed, sometimes you absorb from nonfiction, sometimes you're able to imprint your own autobiographical experiences on a world you never yourself were a part of. A decent number of the one-liners in the title story originally came up in conversations with my girlfriend or my neighbor.”

World Sometimes Stories Able Imagination Numbers Conversation Neighbor Titles Girlfriend Decent Nonfiction My Girlfriend One Liner

Author:Anthony Marra

“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

“Sometimes I fall into the trap of keeping too much to myself, but I think it's important to preserve certain things, it leaves something to the imagination.”

Thinking Important Sometimes Certain Fall Imagination Too Much Preserves Traps

Author:Keiynan Lonsdale

“I just try to put myself in the sense of being a character, sometimes male. I suppose I just like the idea of trying to be different people coming from all kinds of different angles. Most of it was just from my imagination.”

People Trying Kind Ideas Different Sometimes Character Imagination Males All Kinds Angle My Imagination Different Peoples Different Angles

Author:Kate Bush

“I do sculpting sometimes when I have the time, and the first thing I sculpted was a bust of [Albert] Einstein. It still sits on my table and still inspires me. He was a person who triggered my imagination and my ideas.”

Firsts Persons Stills Ideas Sometimes Imagination Inspire Tables My Imagination Sculpting

Author:Vandana Shiva

“In horror films, they sometimes don't show the monster because our imaginations and our own pain is so much greater. Social media is like that. I think it's so great. It doesn't have to show a monster - when you see someone leaving a mean comment, or living a so-called perfect life, you just put all of your pain into that.”

Thinking Mean Sometimes Shows Pain Film Social Imagination Perfect Greater Media Horror Leaving Social Media Monsters Comment Horror Film Perfect Life

Author:Alice Eve

“The designation is useful and necessary and sometimes limiting but it is only limiting to people who think, for example, that African-American literature couldn't possibly be something they could be interested in or relate to. They have limited imaginations, which is sad.”

People Thinking Sometimes Literature Imagination Example African American Relate American Literature Designation

Author:Roxane Gay

“The writing I have in mind and sometimes indulge in myself is concerned, not with plants, mountains or birds as items of scientific description, but with experiences of nature that impinge upon our moods and emotions, enrich our imagination and reveries, and shape our sense of how we stand in relation to the environing world. In a broad sense of the term, this kind of writing is an exercise in phenomenology, an attempt to render the significance that birds, plants or whatever have for us.”