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...the mode by which he "heard" the universe and projected it far beyond himself. Perhaps it was in this, I said to Albertine, this unknown quality of...more

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Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.

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The sea refreshes our imagination because it does not make us think of human life; yet it rejoices the soul, because, like the soul, it is an infinite...more

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The impression given us by a person or a work (or an interpretation of a work) of marked individuality is peculiar to that person or work. We have bro...more

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Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the task of art to undo thi...more

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But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly imagine.

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We enjoy lovely music, beautiful paintings, a thousand intellectual delicacies, but we have no idea of their cost, to those who invented them, in slee...more

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The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection.

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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

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Let us leave pretty women to men without imagination.

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All the products of one period have something in common; the artists who illustrate the poetry of their generation are the same artists who are employ...more

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It was the quartets of Beethoven (numbers 12,13,14, and 15) which over fifty years, created and expanded the the audience of listeners to the quartets...more

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For a young man has strong imagination but poor judgment, so that he imagines others to be as big as he is but considers himself to be very small. He ...more

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The wretchedness of ordinary life, endured so gaily when it is part of our normal existence, is made far worse when it comes as something new, and is ...more

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A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has its price-tag on.