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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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The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the animal body before it was human. The intricate connections of mind and body must exceed our imagination, as from our point of view we are peculiarly prevented from observing them. – John Desmond Bernal

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What is now proved was only once imagined. – William Blake

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Love doesnt grow on trees like apples in Eden – its something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too. – Joyce Cary

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Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audiences imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean theres no fourth wall. – Stephen Sondheim

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