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• Puzzlement and doubt are, however, already crimes in the totalitarian state. The mind that is open for questions is open for dissent. In the totalitarian regime the doubting, inquisitive, and imaginative mind has to be suppressed. The totalitarian slave is only allowed to memorize, to salivate when the bell rings.

  Joost Meerloo

  Doubt, Mind, Bells

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• I'm an artistic kind of person. I draw. I've drawn my whole life. When you have an imaginative mind, I think the artistic form manifests itself in different ways. When I was younger, I used to draw murals for people.

  Vinny Guadagnino

  Thinking, People, Mind

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• Once you become tagged as anything, it becomes difficult to shake it, because the less imaginative people in the business want you to do what worked for the last guy. That's always been something I've had to deal with.

  John C. Reilly

  People, Guy, Want

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. September 15, 2004.

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• I think imaginative exercises can have a profound impact on the future - what you can imagine can sometimes turn into something you can figure out how to build.

  Vinton Cerf

  Exercise, Thinking, Impact

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they write themselves.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Mind, Stories

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Photography is the art of anticipation, not working with memories, but showing their formation. As such, it has relentlessly usurped imaginative and critical prerogatives of older, slower literature and handmade visual art.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Photography, Art, Memories

  "Looking Back" by Peter Schjeldahl, www.newyorker.com. March 21, 2005.

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• Everyone will be compelled to see that which is optically true, is explicable in its own terms, is objective, before he can arrive at any possible subjective position. This will abolish that pictorial and imaginative association pattern which has remained unsuperseded for centuries and which has been stamped upon our vision by great individual painters.

  Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

  Vision, Patterns, Association

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• It is my belief that the most challenging photographs are those that create a tension between what we refer to as the real and the imaginative.

  Roger Ballen

  Real, Challenges, Belief

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• What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without? We have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms in the world, we have kitchens with the most gimmicks, we have houses with every possible electrical gadget to save ourselves all kinds of trouble - all so that we can have leisure. Leisure, leisure, leisure! So that we don't go mad in the leisure, we have color TV. So that there will never, never, be a moment of silence, we have radio and Muzak. We can't stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.

  Agnes de Mille

  Believe, Thinking, Color

  Agnes De Mille (1980). “America dances”, Macmillan Pub Co

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• Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mind, Lists, Excited

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.209, Harvard University Press

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• There are things that are more important than the news and what’s happening today. There are these archetypes which are part of the human imagination since humans were presumably imaginative. And I think that’s what [people] find touching, these eternal ideas. It’s one of the things that makes fantasy something that tends to stand the test of time because we’re reading, 50 years later, The Lord of the Rings.

  Clive Barker

  Reading, Thinking, Ideas

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• Utopias have their value -- nothing so wonderfully expands the imaginative horizons of human potentialities -- but as guides to conduct they can prove literally fatal.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Horizon, Utopia, Guides

  Isaiah Berlin (2013). “The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas”, p.15, Princeton University Press

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• So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Team, Play, Magic

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• Pastors need to know what's going on in the world and what has been going on for 4,000 years. We need a way to read Scripture which is imaginative, interpretive.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Years, Needs, World

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• On this simple unit-system [of building blocks] ruled on the low table-top all these forms were combined by the child into imaginative patter. Design was recreation! ...The virtue of all this lay in the awakening of the childmind to rhythmic structure in Nature - giving the child a sense of innate cause-and-effect otherwise far beyond child-comprehension.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Children, Block, Creativity

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• A basic language-literacy of Nature is falling from us. And what is being lost along with this literacy is something perhaps even more valuable: a kind of language-magic, the power that certain words possess to enchant our imaginative relations with Nature and landscape.

  Robert Macfarlane

  Fall, Magic, Landscape

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• There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.

  David Whyte

  Fierce, Lyrical, Aspect

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• I love imaginative representations of a possible near-future, where you look at the technology and you think, "Well, yeah, that could really nearly be true." I like those kinds of backgrounds.

  Bill Nighy

  Technology, Thinking, Looks

  Source: collider.com

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• Ghetto-dwellers are the great fantasists. There was an extraordinary vibrancy there, an imaginative life. When you are that poor, all you've got left is your belief in the imagination.

  Ben Okri

  Ghetto, Imagination, Vibrancy

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• What a rare joy it is to linger in the lucid, transcendent worlds of Jennifer Maier's poems. In taut, precise language and lapidary images, Now, Now explores myriad pathways of connection, the ways desire, longing, and imaginative possibility brush up against the everyday, revealing a keen, fiercely compassionate intelligence-a sensibility so finely attuned and so clearly in love with the world that you would follow it almost anywhere.

  Rick Hilles

  Joy, Everyday, Desire

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• Fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Exercise, Fiction, May

  Marilynne Robinson (2012). “When I Was A Child I Read Books”, p.19, Hachette UK

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• [The career a young man should choose should be] one that is most consonant with our dignity, one that is based on ideas of whose truth we are wholly convinced, one that offers us largest scope in working for humanity and approaching that general goal towards which each profession offers only one of the means: the goal of perfection ... If he works only for himself he can become a famous scholar, a great sage, an excellent imaginative writer [ Dichter ], but never a perfected, a truly great man.

  Karl Marx

  Mean, Men, Careers

  "Reflections of a Youth on Choosing an Occupation", 1835.

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• Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very fanciful mind.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Mind, Milton

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1856). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.202

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• The effect, if not the prime office, of criticism is to make our absorption and our enjoyment of the things that feed the mind as aware of itself as possible, since that awareness quickens the mental demand, which thus in turn wanders further and further for pasture. This action on the part of the mind practically amounts to a reaching out for the reasons of its interest, as only by its ascertaining them can the interest grow more various. This is the very education of our imaginative life.

  Henry James

  Office, Mind, Criticism

  Henry James (1969). “Notes on Novelists: With Some Other Notes”, p.315, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• We need some imaginative stimulus, some not impossible ideal such as may shape vague hope, and transform it into effective desire, to carry us year after year, without disgust, through the routine-work which is so large a part of life.

  Walter Pater

  Routine Work, Years, Desire

  Walter Pater (2006). “Marius the Epicurean: Easyread Large Edition”, p.233, ReadHowYouWant.com

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