We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination. Richard Le Gallienne beautyelementhalf Change image and share on social
What's in front of you is a whole world of experiences beyond your imagination. Put yourself, and your growth and development, first. Phylicia Rashad developmentexperiencefront Change image and share on social
If you were a successful upper-middle-class Negro girl in the 1950s and '60s, you were, in practice and imagination, a white Protestant upper middle-class girl. Young, good-looking white women were the most desirable creatures in the world. It was hard not to want to imitate them; it was highly toxic, too, as we would learn. Margo Jefferson 1950s60sclass share on social
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination. Ludwig Wittgenstein imaginationkeyboardnote Change image and share on social
The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination. Richard Hofstadter charactercorruptioncruelty share on social
To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. Richard Bach bringimaginelife Change image and share on social
Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall. Stephen Sondheim audiencecreatedisbelief Change image and share on social
There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen. Sean O'Faolain admirablecreateform Change image and share on social
I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake. Mary McCarthy cakeimaginaryplum Change image and share on social
Agnes Varda changed my view of cinema; she directs from an artistic point of view, and a film is most of all the expression of an artistic director. I learnt to enter the world and the imagination of a director. Julie Gayet agnesartisticchange share on social