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“Without imagination of the one kind or the other, mortal existence is indeed a dreary and prosaic business.”

— Walter de la Mare

“Science does not know its debt to imagination.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“One has to have the imagination to think of something that has never been seen before, never been heard of before.”

— Richard Feynman

“Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination.”

— David Hume

“Like any other faculty, imagination can be starved and suffocated or stimulated and nourished.”

— Laura Archera Huxley

“If the world were clear, art would not exist.”

— Albert Camus

“Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality.”

— John Dewey

“Art is the great and universal refreshment.”

— John Galsworthy

“Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.”

— John Ruskin

“Art is the triumph over chaos.”

— John Cheever

“While our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.”

— Ray Bradbury

“All art is but imitation of nature.”

— Seneca

“You use a glass mirror to see your face: you use works of art to see your soul.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.”

— James Baldwin

“If you would be a good reader, read; if a writer, write.”

— Epictetus

“Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.”

— John Milton

“A man will turn over half a library to make one book.”

— Samuel Johnson

“Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.”

— Italo Calvino

“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.”

— Oscar Wilde

“All intellectual and artistic ambitions are permissible, up to and even beyond the limit of prudent sanity.”

— Joseph Conrad

“An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind.”

— Epictetus

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