Famous quotes containing the word imaginative:
“An imaginative adventure does not enjoy the same corsets as reportage.”
—Samuel Beckett (19061989)
“Jesus of Nazareth could have chosen simply to express Himself in moral precepts; but like a great poet He chose the form of the parable, wonderful short stories that entertained and clothed the moral precept in an eternal form. It is not sufficient to catch mans mind, you must also catch the imaginative faculties of his mind.”
—Dudley Nichols (18951960)
“... a novel survives because of its basic truthfulness, its having within it something general and universal, and a quality of imaginative perception which applies just as much now as it did in the fifty or hundred or two hundred years since the novel came to life.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (18991973)