"You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself."
― Milan Kundera
Topic(s):
Imagination
More From Milan Kundera
- "Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory."
- "There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one’s own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos."
- "Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress."
More In Imagination
- "Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It’s the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe."― Philip Guston
- "On the one hand, the guns were there to help capture the imagination of the people. But more important, since we knew that you couldn’t observe the police without guns, we took our guns with us to let the police know that we have an equalizer."― Bobby Seale
- "This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts."― Adam Smith