Human beings are creators, flinging powerful images into the minds of their fellow men. And all of these images are built of tiny particles of thought.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.
The imagination is man's power over nature.
The human race is governed by its imagination.
The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.
We do not merely perceive objects and hold thoughts in our minds: all our perceptions and thought processes are felt. All have a distinctive component that announces an unequivocal link between images and the existence of life in our organism.
Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind.
Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.
Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.
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