You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself. – Milan Kundera
True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. – Milan Kundera
To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring — it was peace. – Milan Kundera
Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory. – Milan Kundera