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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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If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old – somebody who takes good care of things and of people. – Connie Nielsen

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My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it. They said that I couldnt be an actress because I would be taller than all my leading men, so I thought I would be a writer instead. – Nicole Kidman

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We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth. – Jean Giraudoux

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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. – Albert Einstein

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