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Imagination is the most accessible form of witchcraft
Like any currency of value, the human imagination is a coin with two inseparable sides. It is our faculty of fancy that fills the disquieting gaps of the unknown with the tranquilizing certitudes of myth and superstition, that points to magic and witchcraft when common sense and reason fail to unveil causality. But that selfsame faculty is also wha... See more
Maria Popova • Figuring
“Imagination is often referred to as a sort of solo activity — authors, artists — but what we’ve found is really key to creativity is that it’s a collective imagination process. It’s the magic of creating together.”
Phoebe Tickell • Cultivating Everyday Imagination
Imagining is a rigorous discipline. Imagination is our greatest national resource, one that drives value creation across the sciences, the humanities, the arts, and business. All compelling entrepreneurial ventures, transformative social movements, and technological breakthroughs begin with an inspired sense of possibility.
Seth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
I’ve been thinking , what is imagination? A ny language that you create as an artist is a form of worldmaking and creativity comes into play in many ways – i n everyday tasks , all the time . E veryone dreams. E veryone has dreams , a nd that also is a process of worldmaking. – Tai Shani
Serpentine Podcast: REWORLDING
First of all, is it's not Harry Potter. You can't say some incantations, wave a stick, or wish on a star and magically get what you want. Life in the physical is the tangible and material world and more often than not, magic is used as a tool for navigating this world, delivering connections and insight, and helping you accomplish things. Still, it... See more
Sadalsuud • It's Called "Woo" Because It's Fun
Imagination dreams that which knowledge makes real. It could be said that imagination is the proto-reality.
Ben Okri • The Mystery Feast: Thoughts on Storytelling
The imagination works on the threshold that runs between light and dark, visible and invisible, quest and question, possibility and fact. The imagination is the great friend of possibility. Where the imagination is awake and alive fact never hardens or closes but remains open, inviting you to new thresholds of possibility and creativity.
John O'Donohue • Anam Cara: 25th Anniversary Edition
creativity is a form of magic, one that happens unseen in the dark, in the space between the known and the unknowable.