"Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth."
― Cyril Connolly
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Imagination
― Cyril Connolly
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- "There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives."
- "No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning."
- "Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster."
More In Imagination
- "Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine."― Rita Dove
- "I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see."― Duane Michals
- "You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception."― Henri Bergson