“Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.” — Luigi Pirandello
Created in the gaze of a starry lion in the August sky, this series explores how imagination is to nature as words and images are to the work of creation.
I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.
― J.G. Ballard
Our imagination flies — we are its shadow on the earth.
―Vladimir Nabokov
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
― Robert Fulghum
You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
― Mark Twain
Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.
―Lucy Maud Montgomery
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
—Carl Jung
Everything you can imagine is real.
―Pablo Picasso
Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
—C. S. Lewis
Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.
—Maria Montessori
Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.
―Lewis Carroll
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The gaze of a starry lion in the August sky on our perceptions of reality is made possible by human imagination in nature’s work of creation.
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
—Anais Nin
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These are very imaginative! ❤
~David
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Another pas de deux in blog form from the duo of Leduc & Sum. Well done!
Merci and Thank you, George. Knocked over by your applause, like reeds bowing in a boffo breeze.
I guess that’s what we do when we write and writing gives us the liberty of imagining and putting it down on parchment.
Thank you for your visit and thoughtful comment, Yassy. I think we may both agree with what Anais Nin said, “It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.” I think that’s what we do with the “liberty of imagination.” Even if we put it down on virtual parchment. 🙂
You are welcome, Cogito. Yes, we both agree. I like the way you say it .. function of art to renew our perception..and the rest of what you say is very perceptive and accurate..
I can’t take credit for what Anais Nin said about the function of art, but as I thought you would, I also agree with it.
Of course , Cogito .. I know.
Absolutely stunning post – art, poetry, quotes.
Imagine a feline as a bodhisattva
Imagine a silkworm as butterfly magic
Imagine dragonflies seeing nature with their iridescent wings
Imagine truth in the cusp between moonset and sunrise
Thank you LuAnne for your observant and beautiful comments.
I wonder, could curiosity decide the fate of a bodhisattva cat in Shrodinger’s box?
“I have lived with several Zen masters — all of them cats.” Eckhart Tolle