"The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure."
― Ben Okri
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Imagination
― Ben Okri
More From Ben Okri
- "One of the greatest gifts my father gave me – unintentionally – was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man."
- "Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide."
- "I’m conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There’s hardly a day that goes past on which I don’t write poetry."
More In Imagination
- "The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South."― James Weldon Johnson
- "Don Quixote’s misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza."― Franz Kafka
- "I mean, the most important thing to me is imagination."― Rob Walton