Imaginative Quotes

268 Imaginative quotes by 234 unique authors

Progress is the exploration of our own error. Evolution is a consolidation of what have always begun as errors. And errors are of two kinds:… — Jacob Bronowski
It helps to regard soul as an active intelligence, forming and plotting each person's fate. Translators use "plot" to render the ancient Greek word mythos… — James Hillman
The cliché is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in clichés, so that English literature is always in danger of… — Gerald Brenan
For a scientist must indeed be freely imaginative and yet skeptical, creative and yet a critic. There is a sense in which he must be… — Peter Medawar
The other, the other aspect when I say I'm an actor is that as an actor you make this imaginative leap into being somebody else,… — Simon McBurney
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist for example Vincent Van Gogh, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the… — Loren Eiseley
The best art is about individualism, free self-expression and realising a unique, imaginative perspective- A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The… — Oscar Wilde
A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a… — Oscar Wilde
The creative consequences of man's imaginative strivings may never make him whole; but they constitute his deepest consolations and his greatest glories. — Anthony Storr
Imaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts. — Christopher Bram
It is not necessary to have an extravagant food budget in order to serve things with variety and tastefully cooked. It is not necessary to… — Edith Schaeffer
The Imaginative Child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization — L. Frank Baum
The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers. — Isaac Asimov
It is only my eye that has helped me. I am still hopeless with that thing called a scale ruler. I love color, but that… — Sister Parish
Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie's The Wicked + The Divine is a warp into the middle of a wildly imaginative mythology and I'm itching to… — Rick Remender
With Head Off & Split, Nikky Finney establishes herself as one of the most eloquent, urgent, fearless and necessary poets writing in America today. What… — Kwame Dawes
I had very strong feelings, so the chance to make a film that deals in an imaginative way with stuff you care tremendously about is… — Jonathan Demme
The ear is profound, whereas the eye is frivolous, too easily satisfied. The ear is active, imaginative, whereas the eye is passive. When you hear… — Robert Bresson
A gathering of Democrats is more sweaty, disorderly, offhand, and rowdy than a gathering of Republicans; it is also likely to be more cheerful, imaginative,… — Clinton Rossiter
To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of… — Robert E. Sherwood
A desirable advertisement will be reasonable, but never dull ... original, but never self-conscious ... imaginative, but never misleading. — Fairfax M. Cone
The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education is often lacking… — Aaron Scharf
To argue that we humans are capable of complex multifarious thought and feeling, whereas the sheep's perception is probably limited by lowly sheepish perceptions, is… — Brigid Brophy
Shouldn't someone tag Mr. Kennedy's bold new imaginative program with its proper age? Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl Marx-first launched a… — Ronald Reagan
We cannot, even given our most imaginative efforts, construct a concept of Self that does not impute some causal influence of prior mental states on… — Jerome Bruner

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