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Quote by Cyril Connolly
Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to scienc

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth. – Cyril Connolly

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We must select the Illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy. – Cyril Connolly

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As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers. – Cyril Connolly

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An idea is salvation by imagination. – Frank Lloyd Wright

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Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination. – George Henry Lewes

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But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers? – James Thomson

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They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. – Edgar Allan Poe, “Eleonora”

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