INSPIRATION
"The power of imagination makes us infinite." John Muir
IMAGINATION As humans we are uniquely gifted with an imagination. “People always ask me: ‘Where do you get all these ideas? Information is coming from all kinds of sources, new sources every day…I digest [it], channel it through my own imagination, and put it back into the world.” - Keith Haring (1984) Imagination is our ability to form a mental image of something that is not perceived through our five senses. Historically, imagination was seen as a fundamental and unified human faculty, essentially enmeshed in conscious life. Similarly, early aestheticians thought that all the questions of art — its definition, its appreciation, its value, and its judgement — could be subsumed under one general
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