Betrachtung / Contemplation Etwas / Something Gefühle / Feelings Kunst / Art Organ Phantasie / Imagination Produzieren / Producing Rein / Pure Über / Above Unsere / Our Welche / Which Wirkt sich aus / Affects Wunderschönen / Beautiful Ziele / Aims
That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.
A good producer brings out the best in the artist he's working with. You shouldn't be able to listen to something and say, 'So-and-so produced this album.'
Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.
All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.
Musicians playing together, it's a conversation, and ideally I want our conversation to be really intriguing and interesting and beautiful.
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
