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Imagination Quotes by Gaston Bachelard
- Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
- Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves,…
- It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry.
- Imagination is a tree. It has the integrative virtues of a tree. It is root and boughs. It lives between earth and sky. It lives…
- For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we…
- Perhaps it is even a good idea to stir up a rivalry between conceptual and imaginative activity. In any case, one will encounter nothing but…
- The image can only be studied through the image, by dreaming images as they gather in reverie. It is a non-sense to claim to study…
- Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the…
More Imagination Quotes
- To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. — Richard Bach
- Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely. — Marcus Aurelius
- A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. — Jane Austen
- What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! — Jane Austen
- Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. — Lauren Bacall
- Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what… — Francis Bacon
- They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. — Francis Bacon
- It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can… — David Bailey
- Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. — James A. Baldwin
- I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means. — J. G. Ballard
- The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely… — J. G. Ballard
- I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination. — Eric Bana