#imagination

You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible. ↗

— Rita Dove

#before #evidence #existed #front #imagine

Prayer, faith, and vision, plus real effort too. Blend them together for one potent brew; The magical spell to your dreams coming true. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#dreams #effort #faith #goals #hope

But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers? ↗

— James Thomson

#boast #creation #gay #hers #hues

There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#class #connection #deep #educated #ideas

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. ↗

— Voltaire

#canvas #furnished #imagination #love is #nature

I think often in film we limit our imaginations a little - well, quite a lot, actually... things get quite formulaic. ↗

— Hugo Weaving

#film #formulaic #get #i #i think

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it. ↗

— Simone Weil

#because #compulsions #conscious #crowd #dynamic

The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#art #art world #calls #chinese #create

Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become a writer. He also, in a way, gave me permission to write about northern Montana. ↗

— James Welch

#also #anyone #become #bit #could

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#almost #future #imagination #much #past