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Frank Auerbach

"To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination."

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"To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination."

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"Do you know what the best and worst thing about a book is? The author can't answer all your questions, only your imagination can."

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"O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. . . .She is the fairies' midwife, and she comesIn shape no bigger than an agate stoneOn the forefinger of an alderman,Drawn with a team of little atomiAthwart men's noses as they lie asleep."

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"The words we construct, the poems we write and the songs we sing, become the love story of a stranger we have never seen."

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"Music enables mind to compose things in the outer limit of logic."

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"When the imagination takes over, the second hand could be the hour hand to a creator of stories."

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"With astonishing wonder, I have seen the magic of life, the power of thoughts, and the beauty of imagination."

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"Too many questions can cripple imagination, for how can you apply logical questions to something that is not real?"

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"We are blessed with a finite life, but our imaginations are infinite."

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