Imaginative Quotes - Page 5

• The disinterested imaginative core of mythology is what develops into literature, science, philosophy. Religion is applied mythology.

  Northrop Frye

  Philosophy, Literature, Mythology

  Northrop Frye, Robert D. Denham (2003). “Northrop Frye's Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts”, p.158, University of Toronto Press

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• As a philosophical problem, it comes down to a better way to engage with the passage of time; and I think we're getting close to one, because the imaginative loss of the future is becoming acute.The most effective political actors on the planet now are people who want to blow themselves up.These are people who really don't want to get out of the bed in the morning and face another unpredictable day.

  Bruce Sterling

  Morning, Philosophical, Loss

  "The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole". Talk at Long Now Foundation, 2004.

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• In our time ... a man whose enemies are faceless bureaucrats almost never wins. It is our equivalent to the anger of the gods in ancient times. But those gods you must understand were far more imaginative than our tiny bureaucrats. They spoke from mountaintops not from tiny airless offices. They rode clouds. They were possessed of passion. They had voices and names. Six thousand years of civilization have brought us to this.

  Chaim Potok

  Passion, Winning, Men

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• Se acerca Halloween. Los niños se ponen muy imaginativos en mi barrio. El año pasado, tres niños se presentaron como ejecutivos de Goldman Sachs y exigieron 4.500 millones de caramelos.

  Jay Leno

  Halloween, Kids, Years

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• La imaginación es el medio de apreciación en todos los campos. El compromiso de la imaginación es lo único que hace que cualquier actividad sea algo más que mecánica. Desgraciadamente, es demasiado habitual identificar lo imaginativo con lo imaginario, en lugar de con una asimilación cálida e íntima de todo el alcance de una situación.

  John Dewey

  Appreciation, Imagination, Engagement

  John Dewey (2004). “Democracy and Education”, p.226, Courier Corporation

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• The arts, like language, emerged spontaneously and universally in similar forms across cultures, employing imaginative and intellectual capacities that had clear survival value.

  Denis Dutton

  Art, Survival, Intellectual

  Denis Dutton (2009). “The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, & Human Evolution”, p.5, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Uno de los puntos débiles de gran parte de la pintura abstracta es el intento de sustituir una prístina concepción imaginativa por las invenciones del intelecto. La vida interior de un ser humano es un reino vasto y variado y no se ocupa únicamente de estimular la disposición del color, la forma y el diseño. El término "vida", tal como se utiliza en el arte, no debe despreciarse, ya que se aplica a toda su existencia, y la competencia del arte es reaccionar ante ella y no rehuirla. La pintura tendrá que tratar la vida y los fenómenos de la naturaleza de forma más completa y menos oblicua antes de que pueda volver a ser grande.

  Edward Hopper

  Arte, color, diseño

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• I found so-called great art too pompous, too stiff. What at this time was called minor art was freer, more imaginative, more open to all kinds of unorthodox expression, all kinds of daring in the handling of materials, and I preferred to surround myself with this type of art than with the great collectors' pieces. I had always in my mind that I was collecting for learning.

  Jacques Lipchitz

  Art, Greatness, Expression

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• No se me da bien subirme a plataformas y convencer a la gente de mi punto de vista político. Ni me gustaría hacerlo. Mi don es completamente distinto. Sirve para presentar una versión imaginativa del mundo que espero que la gente reconozca y le afecte.

  David Hare

  Opiniones, Gente, Política

  "Nuevo otra vez: David Hare". Entrevista con Kathleen Tynan, www.interviewmagazine.com. 29 de abril de 2015.

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• It's actually hard for creative people to know themselves because the creative self is more complex than the non-creative self. The things that stand out the most are the paradoxes of the creative self ... Imaginative people have messier minds.

  Scott Barry Kaufman

  Self, People, Creative

  "18 Things Highly Creative People Do Differently" by Carolyn Gregoire, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2014.

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• Está muy bien decir que los niños son más felices con pasteles de barro y muñecas de trapo que con estas elaboradas delicias. Puede que haya algo de cierto en esta teoría, pero cuando sus diversiones se llevan a tal punto de lujosa e imaginativa perfección, ciertamente les proporciona un gran e incluso ilimitado disfrute en ese momento.

  Ada Leverson

  Children, Pie, Giving

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• The origins and travels of our purchases remain matters of indifference, although to the more imaginative at least a slight dampness at the bottom of a carton, or an obscure code printed along a computer cable, may hint at processes of manufacture and transport nobler and more mysterious, more worthy of wonder and study, than the very goods themselves.

  Alain de Botton

  Hints, May, Matter

  "Los placeres y las penas del trabajo". Libro de Alain de Botton, 2008.

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• The intensity of vision in the artist and of vividness in his creations are the sole tests of his imaginative power.

  George Henry Lewes

  Artist, Vision, Tests

  George Henry Lewes (1891). "Los principios del éxito en la literatura"

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• Se supone que lo que la gente piense de uno no importa mucho, siempre que uno mismo sepa dónde está la verdad; pero he descubierto, al igual que otros que entran y salen de los titulares de los periódicos, que en ocasiones puede importar mucho. Porque una vez que entras en el mundo de los titulares aprendes que no hay una verdad, sino dos: la que tú conoces por los hechos y la que el público, o al menos una parte muy imaginativa del público, adquiere por ósmosis.

  Richard E. Byrd

  Lying, Moving, Thinking

  Richard E. Byrd (2003). “Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure”, p.8, Island Press

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• People who get Nobel prizes aren't necessarily the most imaginative of people. People who sometimes find a system, develop a system, do very useful work.

  Aaron Klug

  People, Sometimes, Nobel

  Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Interview, library.cshl.edu. June 17, 2005.

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• [Opera] does not call so much for an imaginative ear as for an imaginative eye, an eye which can see beyond little absurdities toward great truths.

  George Richard Marek

  Eye, Doe, Ears

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• Si un artista y un científico tienen un punto en común, probablemente sea la necesidad de algún tipo de pensamiento imaginativo para interpretar el material del que disponen.

  Catherine Yass

  Artist, Thinking, Needs

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• Uno no va al teatro a ver la vida y la naturaleza; uno va a ver la forma particular en que la vida y la naturaleza le parecen a un hombre culto, imaginativo y divertido que resulta ser, a su vez, un dramaturgo.

  George Jean Nathan

  Hombres, Doe, Miradas

  George Jean Nathan (1972). "The Critic and the Drama", p.55, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press.

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• It is imperative when flying coach that you restrain any tendency toward the vividly imaginative. For although it may momentarily appear to be the case, it is not at all likely that the cabin is entirely inhabited by crying babies smoking inexpensive domestic cigars.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Baby, Smoking, Flying

  Fran Lebowitz (1994). "The Fran Lebowitz Reader", Vintage

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• I don't believe that you can possibly separate expression from thought in an imaginative work. The better a thing is expressed, the more completely it is thought.

  Virginia Woolf

  Believe, Expression, Don't Believe

  Virginia Woolf (1975). "Las cartas de Virginia Woolf"

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• When we hate a person, with an intimate, imaginative, human hatred, we enter into his mind, or sympathize -- any strong interest will arouse the imagination and create some sort of sympathy.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Strong, Hate, Imagination

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.159, Transaction Publishers

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• Fantasy is a literature particularly useful for embodying and examining the real difference between good and evil. In an America where our reality may seem degraded to posturing patriotism and self-righteous brutality, imaginative literature continues to question what heroism is, to examine the roots of power, and to offer moral alternatives. Imagination is the instrument of ethics. There are many metaphors besides battle, many choices besides war, and most ways of doing good do not, in fact, involve killing anybody. Fanstasy is good at thinking about those other ways.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Real, War, Thinking

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• Creo que el impulso transexual, al menos tal y como yo lo he experimentado, es mucho más que una compulsión social, también es biológico, imaginativo y esencialmente espiritual.

  Jan Morris

  Spiritual, Believe, Sexuality

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• Whether the poet is living or dead, they're part of our imaginative community.

  Joan Larkin

  Community, Poet

  "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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• If plants could be credited with reasoning powers, we would marvel at the imaginative ways they bribe or ensnare other creatures to carry out their wishes.

  Jane Goodall

  Wish, Way, Plant

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