Quotes for All
Phases of the creative process: Preparation-gathering impressions Incubation-letting go of certainties Immersion/Illumination-creative intervention/risk Revision-conscious structuring and editing of creative material. Gail Sheehy
April 27. Incapable of living with people, of speaking. Complete immersion in myself, thinking of myself. Apathetic, witless, fearful. I have nothing to say to anyone – never. Franz Kafka
The spirit of revelation is available to every person who receives by proper priesthood authority the saving ordinances of baptism by immersion for the remission of sins and the laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost – and who is acting in faith to fulfill the priesthood injunction to ‘receive the … Read more
Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn’t matter. Cynthia Ozick
For me, part of the fascination with making animation is you go to a place; it’s a complete immersion in someone else’s fantasy. Chris Wedge
Taking advantage of the method, found by me, of the black staining of the elements of the brain, staining obtained by the prolonged immersion of the pieces, previously hardened with potassium or ammonium bichromate, in a 0.50 or 1.0% solution of silver nitrate, I happened to discover some facts concerning the structure of the cerebral … Read more
By the age of three … I was already an addicted reader. I still crave daily immersion in experience other than my own; (it needn’t be more pleasant, exciting or illuminating — merely other) and I still fall into books as though into catalepsy. Brigid Brophy
When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That’s one of the great feelings – to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies … Read more
Each spine was an encapsulated memory, each book represented hours, days of pleasure, of immersion into words. Audrey Niffenegger
To achieve contact with reality is not to transport oneself elsewhere, it is not transcendence but thorough immersion in one’s surroundings. A reality which is neither purely physical nor metaphysical, but both at once. Antoni Tapies