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21 posts tagged Imagination
“Was it a millionaire who said, ‘Imagine no possessions’?”
“Imagination is a quality that was given to man compensate him from what’s not. The sense of humor was given to console him from what is.”
“Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane. Math is hard. Reading a map. Following orders. Carpentry. Electronics. Plumbing. Remembering things correctly. Straight lines. Sheet rock. Finding a safety pin. Patience with others. Ordering in Chinese. Stereo instructions in German.”
Odilon Redon, Different Peoples Inhabit the Countries of the Ocean, plate 23 of 24, 1896, lithograph in black with retouching in India ink on ivory China paper laid down on ivory wove paper, 308 x 230 mm (image); 310 x 234 mm (chine); 458 x 349 mm (sheet), The Stickney Collection, 1920, via The Art Institute of Chicago
“Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
“The man with no imagination has no wings.”
“I have a friend who’s an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don’t agree with very well. He’ll hold up a flower and say ‘look how beautiful it is,’ and I’ll agree. Then he says ‘I as an artist can see how beautiful this is but you as a scientist take this all apart and it becomes a dull thing,’ and I think that he’s kind of nutty. First of all, the beauty that he sees is available to other people and to me too, I believe. Although I may not be quite as refined aesthetically as he is … I can appreciate the beauty of a flower. At the same time, I see much more about the flower than he sees. I could imagine the cells in there, the complicated actions inside, which also have a beauty. I mean it’s not just beauty at this dimension, at one centimeter; there’s also beauty at smaller dimensions, the inner structure, also the processes. The fact that the colors in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; it means that insects can see the color. It adds a question: does this aesthetic sense also exist in the lower forms? Why is it aesthetic? All kinds of interesting questions which the science knowledge only adds to the excitement, the mystery and the awe of a flower. It only adds. I don’t understand how it subtracts.”
“To show things for what they are and what else they are.”
(via aao-art)
“The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.”
“A painting is above all a product of the artist’s imagination, it must never be a copy. If, at a later stage, he wants to add two or three touches from nature, of course it doesn’t spoil anything.”
Pablo Picasso, Curtain for the ballet “Parade,” 1917, tempera (Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France)
“Everything you can imagine is real.”
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… nor till the autocrats among us can be
”literalists of
the imagination” — above
insolence and triviality and can present
for inspection, imaginary gardens with real toads
in them, shall we have
it.
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
“To the spirit which has stripped off for a moment its own idle temporal standards the grass is an everlasting forest, with dragons for denizens; the stones of the road are as incredible mountains piled one upon the other; the dandelions are like gigantic bonfires illuminating the lands around; and the heath-bells on their stalks are like planets hung in heaven each higher than the other.”
