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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended

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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An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination. – Eduard Hanslick

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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. – Wislawa Szymborska

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I mean, its fine when youre a kid and someone runs into the playground and goes, Ive got this great game of pretend, and you play… As an actor, getting to play, getting to use your imagination and be childish – it is weird but its wonderful. – Max Irons

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I suppose Im proudest of my novels for whats imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography. – John Irving

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He brought imagination to the story of the Creation. – Harvey Keitel

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