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The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.

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Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Category: Imagination

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. Invention is the talent of youth as judgment is of age.
  • 2. Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age my hobby became thinking and finding connections.
  • 3. Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long and the age of the great epics is past.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Everyone at home is so supportive. People recognise me say how proud they are of me. It's awesome to hear it's amazing to know I can touch so many people in a positive way.
  • 2. If I can help and influence girls who are going through body-image issues then I think that's amazing.
  • 3. I've created directed and choreographed for Lady Gaga since the beginning so 'Born This Way ' this was musically such an amazing evolution and such a brilliant record. So when she played it for me it took me a while to find out the visual interpretation that I could give back to her.

3 Anger

  • 1. Generalised anger and frustration is something that gets you in the studio and gets you to work – though it's not necessarily evident in anything that's finished.
  • 2. I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.
  • 3. Successful prime-time television of any genre produces some kind of emotional reaction in the viewers. There are a lot of different emotions to tap into. The emotion of the reward of discovery the feeling of righteous anger the feelings of pathos and sadness or sentimentality of being moved by something.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. I didn't make my first solo record until 1981 so I don't have any 60's or 70's recordings but I am working on a large boxed set called DUST to be released next year the 20th anniversary of my first solo record.
  • 2. It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia.
  • 3. See the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it the bitter honesty is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody – 'You must live life this way' – and these guys were bored.

5 Architecture

  • 1. The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
  • 2. At a certain point I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.
  • 3. Don't clap too hard – it's a very old building.
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