I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm not such a fan of imagination. If you're alive to details, they oftentimes suggest a richer or deeper imaginative line than you would have imagined.
It's useful to think of the imagination as an aspect of the body because it seems to have processes of its own that are obscure to us.
Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'
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.
Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.
Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of it on my imagination.
Imagination is the air of mind.
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail.
I don't know about you, but I find it exhilarating to see how vague psychological notions evaporate and give rise to a physical, mechanistic understanding of the mind, even if it's the mind of the fly.