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To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize i

To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painters imagination. – Frank Auerbach

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It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning. – Frank Auerbach

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination. – Ian Mcewan

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Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: theyre casting, theyre dressing the scene, theyre working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and theyre also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader. – John le Carre

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Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling. – Henry David Thoreau

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Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

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