The nagging reality of our world these days seems to be limits: limits on what we can do, where we can go, who we can see. But imagination has no limits. No virus can stop it. Painters, sculptors, photographers, writers—all take us to places our world and our own safely-walled-in surroundings won’t let us go. They show us objects and creatures—odd, whimsical, beautiful, absurd–that do exist, after all…in the world of imagination.
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“Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” ~Albert Einstein
“There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.” ~Neil Gaiman
“There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.” ~G.K. Chesterton
“Adventure is not outside man; it is within.” ~George Eliot
“Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.” ~Gloria Steinem
“Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.” ~John Lennon
“We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.” ~J.K. Rowling
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” ~Genesis 1:1
“And then God said, “Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us.” ~Genesis 1:27
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.” (Albert Einstein)
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Great quote!
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Great Post!
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I love this photos. Indeed imagination holds no bounds.
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Good post for our times. To encourage you further, this is from one of my all time favorite books: “If something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn’t there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That’s why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.” –Phantom Tollbooth
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Thank you, Jane (Phantom Tollbooth is one of my favorite books, btw)!
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I forwarded this post to my daughter, who is on a road trip with her family. I think the kids could be entertained for a few miles checking out these pictures. 😉
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;>)
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“a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind”
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can you list the name of the characters by photo
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My family is not wealthy and I’ve never even been on a vacation. I have not traveled more than a hundred miles from my home and only a single state over. But I thank God for the gift of imagination, to be able to imagine people and places, and to be able to be fully immersed in a novel, a film, or music.
I think Emily Dickinson put it best:
“I never saw a Moor —
I never saw the Sea —
Yet know I how the Heather looks
And what a Billow be.
I never spoke with God
Nor visited in Heaven —
Yet certain am I of the spot
As if the Checks were given —”
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How perfectly the poem matches your inner life, Hety.
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Phun with Photoshop? I love the high-stepping rabbit? creature on the streets of Dublin.
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Indeed, Liz. And, yes, Photoshop artists these days seem to be carrying the torch lit by Dali and Magritte.
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🙂
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Yes to imagination 👌 great pics, I had to look twice at some of them 😆😂
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Great post!!!!
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Great Post! My best friend and I were discoursing Gaiman’s idea yesterday—-and came to the conclusion that it is true. Blessings and Peace.
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You too, Claudia.
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For some reason, there are lots of blogs not appearing in my email or reader anymore, and yours is one of them! I have no idea what is going on, but I’ll try to fix it.
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The pix are weird, funny, and meticulously crafted.
The last quote deserves its bold red italics. (I gather that it is original.) Not quite sure why, but it seems more reality-oriented than the Shaw/Kennedy quote in the same spirit about dreaming of things that never were. Nice rhythm too.
Imagination is also a big deal in STEM, tho often obscured by sweating out whether what we imagine can work. Sometimes all we get for our trouble is sweat. But sometimes we get wings.
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“But sometimes we get wings.” Yes, that is what pushes us on, isn’t it? Thanks. (And, yes, the quote is mine.)
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“Imagination allows us to escape the world as it is and then, upon returning, to make it better than it was.” Yes! Excellent post, Mitch.
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Thank you, Jordan!
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You’re welcome, Mitch! Wonderful line inclusive of a dynamic lap in the process.
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