Quote of Milan Kundera - You can understand nothing about art...
Biography - Milan Kundera:
Czech-born French writer.
Born: 1929
Period:
21st century
20th century
Place of birth: Czech Republic
Born: 1929
Period:
21st century
20th century
Place of birth: Czech Republic
You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.
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Quotes about art:
The more I think about it the more I feel that there’s nothing more genuinely artistic than to love people.
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'
Quotes for: to understand
Quotes for: imagination
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
Quotes for: value
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
There is no sense in life a priori. Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the value of it is nothing else but the sense that you choose.
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