Cynthia OzickImagination I don’t agree with the sentiment ‘write what you know.’… I think one should write what one doesn’t know. The world is bigger and wider and more complex than our small subjective selves. One should prod, goad the imagination. – Cynthia Ozick Agree Quotes Bigger Quotes Complex Quotes Goad Quotes Imagination Quotes Prod Quotes Sentiment Quotes Subjective Quotes Wider Quotes Write Quotes Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth. People who think my books are autobiographical, which they’re not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have a powerful imagination.
Edwin Way Teale How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two world wars is blurred over by numbers. – Edwin Way Teale
John E James I think that those who would prejudge me based on an affiliation are doing themselves a disservice. – John E James
Grayson Perry Pottery was what sandal-wearing, windchime-lovers did. Art is sensitive to areas of visual culture that havent yet been colonised by the art world, and perhaps what they sensed back then was, here was an area that hadnt been fully explored. – Grayson Perry
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