Oliver Sacks Quotes About Imagination

Quotes about: Imagination

• Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.

  Oliver Sacks

  Memories, Imagination, Perception

  Oliver Sacks (2011). “Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain”, p.127, Pan Macmillan

• We see with the eyes, but we see with the brain as well. And seeing with the brain is often called imagination.

  Oliver Sacks

  Eye, Imagination, Brain

• With any hallucinations, if you can do functional brain imagery while theyre going on, you will find that the parts of the brain usually involved in seeing or hearing - in perception - have become super active by themselves. And this is an autonomous activity; this does not happen with imagination.

  Oliver Sacks

  Imagination, Perception, Brain

• Creativity...involves the power to originate, to break away from the existing ways of looking at things, to move freely in the realm of the imagination, to create and recreate worlds fully in one's mind-while supervising all this with a critical inner eye.

  Oliver Sacks

  Moving, Creativity, Eye

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