Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?
You have to come in and be that character when you walk into the room. That's what one of my first acting teachers taught me. You know, don't go in there being Jennifer and then expect to flip and change, because they're not going to have that imagination.
The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.
Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.
Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.
One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.
As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude... I hope to make you use your imagination.
Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.
I've been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. It's up to you, the only limit is the imagination.