The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by rea

The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty. – Francisco Jose De Goya Y Lucientes

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We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters. – Susan Sontag

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When a fantasy turns you on, youre obligated to God and nature to start doing it right away. – Stewart Brand

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But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art. – Iris Murdoch

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The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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