Imagination Quotes by Brenda Ueland

8 Imagination quotes by Brenda Ueland

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Brenda Ueland’s eight quotes on imagination radiate her encouragement of personal expression. The concise collection captures her belief that creativity is a personal right, making it a quick source of motivation for aspiring writers.

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When you will, make a resolution, set your jaw, you are expressing an imaginative fear that you won't do the thing. If…

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But the great artists like Michelangelo and Blake and Tolstoi--like Christ whom Blake called an artist because he had one of the…

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The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

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No writing is a waste of time – no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every…

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We have come to think that duty should come first. I disagree. Duty should be a by-product. Writing, the creative effort, the…

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I learned...that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and…

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Orthodox criticism ... is a murderer of talent. And because the most modest and sensitive people are the most talented, having the…

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vivisection is not the same thing as scientific progress. There is such a thing as scientific progress. But this wholesale dedication of…

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If I did not wear torn pants, orthopedic shoes, frantic disheveled hair, that is to say, if I did not tone down my beauty,…

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“[4It is hard to be carefree when you have many anxieties. But the more you have, the more necessary it is to feel carefree…

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“I will tell you what I have learned myself. For me, a long five- or six-mile walk helps. And one must go alone and…

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Self-trust is so important. When you launch on a story, make your neck loose, feel free, good-natured. And be lazy. Feel that you are…

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We start out in our lives as little children, full of light and the clearest vision.

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Inspiration comes to us slowly and quietly . prime it with a little solitude.

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... to paint with oil paints for the first time ... is like trying to make something exquisitely accurate and microscopically clear out of…

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running is the right thing to do! I am free, healthy with a good complexion. It is that automobile addict who should be ashamed:…

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The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny; whose…

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... when I am really alone some power seems to grow in me. ... Conjugality made me think of a three-legged race, where two…

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“In the same way there is much, much in all of us, but we do not know it. No one ever calls it out…

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When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.

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“...the best way to know the Truth or Beauty is to try to express it. And what is the purpose of existence Here or…

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Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.

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