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Quote by Lawrence Durrell
For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential – the imagination. – Lawrence Durrell

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I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time – those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything. – Lawrence Durrell

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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly. – Eduard Hanslick

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You never quite know whats going to strike your imagination, or something that wont going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me. – Peter Shaffer

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Anyone who can be replaced by a machine deserves to be. – Dennis Gunton

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Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people – Francis Bacon

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