"Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding." ― Thomas Carlyle Topic(s): Art Tags: imagination, matter More From Thomas Carlyle "War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle." "Music is well said to be the speech of angels." "Work alone is noble." More In Art "Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn’t have to advertise it."― Will Rogers "Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide."― Ben Okri "Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art."― Paul Theroux