#magi

You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters. ↗

— Michelangelo Antonioni

#characters #empty #empty space #film #i

It was really a magical moment, to see this idea that's in your head. ↗

— Michael Arad

#idea #magical #moment #really #see

I feel very warm towards Mum and Dad for giving us the independence they did. My childhood, and the fact we didn't have a TV, gave me a boundless imagination. ↗

— Dido Armstrong

#childhood #dad #did #fact #feel

Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#bring #dismiss #effective #enabled #faculty

I have an imagination because my life is so boring that my imagination lets me get off the reality of what's going on. ↗

— Dave Attell

#boring #get #going #i #imagination

To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination. ↗

— Frank Auerbach

#carpet #corner #down #each #hanging

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! ↗

— Jane Austen

#dear #forms #how #imaginations #mistaken

Man is an imagining being. ↗

— Gaston Bachelard

#imagining #man

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books. ↗

— Gaston Bachelard

#books #imagination #literary #lover #object

Family, work, familiarity. Listen, if I had a magic wand and I could make myself really be happy, I'd zap me onto a farm. And I know nothing about farming. ↗

— Scott Baio

#be happy #could #familiarity #family #farm