Imaginative Quotes · Page 5

I was nine. I saw Orson Welles in 'Julius Caesar.' It was involving, emotional, imaginative. I've never forgotten it.

— Harold Prince

Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.

— Alfred North Whitehead

I was a very imaginative child, and my parents were very encouraging of that. My sister and I would put on plays;…

— Hannah Kent

Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie's The Wicked + The Divine is a warp into the middle of a wildly imaginative mythology and…

— Rick Remender

Kids want to build things, and we encourage them to be as imaginative as possible on the site.

— David Baszucki

[Opera] does not call so much for an imaginative ear as for an imaginative eye, an eye which can see beyond little…

— George Richard Marek

If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.

— Franz Boas

The Vores Third Quartet is a terrific piece that brings disparate components into harmony. . . it's celebratory, imaginative, touching, and fun.

— Richard Dyer

There is a certain limitlessness to children's novels. You can be as fun and imaginative and creative as you want and your…

— Carrie Hope Fletcher

Invention despoils observations, insinuation invalidates memory. A stewpot of bad habits, all of it - so that imaginative writers wind up, by…

— Cynthia Ozick

I think I misunderstood Instagram and just thought it was people photographing their friends, and discovered there were a number of people,…

— Stephen Shore

One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the…

— Gaston Bachelard

The most common-place people become highly imaginative when they are in a passion. Whole dramas of insult, injury, and wrong pass before…

— Arthur Helps

The life of reality is confused, disorderly, almost always without apparent purpose, whereas in the artist's imaginative life there is purpose. There…

— Sherwood Anderson

I love writing literary stuff. My favorite writer is definitely Edgar Allan Poe - so imaginative and prolific. My second favorite writer…

— MC Lars

I take for granted that for the imaginative writer, the exercise of the imagination is part of the basic process of coping…

— J. G. Ballard

Perhaps it is even a good idea to stir up a rivalry between conceptual and imaginative activity. In any case, one will…

— Gaston Bachelard

Since I was a graduate student, I've done a lot of journalism on the side, for The Village Voice, The Nation etc.…

— Rob Nixon

I think I'd rather do [acting] in the real place. It requires different things, working with green screen, but its an imaginative…

— John Hurt

To argue that we humans are capable of complex multifarious thought and feeling, whereas the sheep's perception is probably limited by lowly…

— Brigid Brophy

A photographer who does not know how to translate his feelings and ideas into a graphically satisfactory form is bound to produce…

— Andreas Feininger

My imagination? No, I don't think it's VIVID at all. On the contrary, it's not nearly potent enough. My poor imaginative faculties…

— Thomas Ligotti

The camera can push the new medium to its limits - and beyond. It is there - in the "beyond" - that…

— Andreas Feininger

The other, the other aspect when I say I'm an actor is that as an actor you make this imaginative leap into…

— Simon McBurney

In the developing world, people often use quite basic technology. Many of the most imaginative schemes are using what we'd count as…

— Charles Leadbeater

Imaginative compassion for that which is other than myself is a constant artistic and ethical discipline.

— Shaun McNiff

By focusing on positive, healthy motivations and letting the more negative ones pass, you can purify the source of you imaginative power.

— Denis Waitley

Like art, religion is an imaginative and creative effort to find a meaning and value in human life.

— Karen Armstrong

There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace.

— Rita Mae Brown

The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing, which I find to be fundamentally offensive as…

— William Hurt

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.

— Alexander Chase

Truth is hard-hearted and unrelenting, too clear, precise; a lie is much more imaginative.

— Dejan Stojanovic

What makes me different as a scientist is that I'm kind of imaginative. The ideas just happen.

— Lisa Randall

The dense and godly wear consistency as a flower, the imaginative fling it joyfully behind them.

— Stella Benson

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise,…

— Gore Vidal

Science-fiction ... can be defined as: Imaginative extrapolation of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future.

— Hugo Gernsback

Children are so creative and imaginative that they just bring you to life all over again.

— Moira Kelly

Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.

— Richard Rorty

Imaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts.

— Christopher Bram

I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales.

— Margaret Haddix