Aesthetics Quote by Claude Calame

“The world is full of alluring, flashy and thrilling experiences, which are illusionary traps — they are paths to nowhere.”

— Bryant McGill

“in trying to enjoy the pleasures of sense, we lose in the end even our capacity for enjoyment. All this is passing before our…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“The beauty of fiction is it need not be factual and the writer's imagination can travel as far from reality as he or she…

— Sheldon Friedman

“Without the aid of the imagination all the pleasures of the senses must sink into grossness.”

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their…

— Oscar Wilde

“The glory of fiction is in its falseness, but the impact of fiction is found in its painful reality.”

— R.W.K. Clark

“You shall learn that reality is a cover, that imagination is our true essence. That a blur is more beautiful than what it hides,…

— Ibraheem Hamdi

“Fiction cannot move so much, but that the attention may be easily transferred; and though it must be allowed that pleasing melancholy be sometimes…

— Samuel Johnson

“Such is the privilege of survival: to be allowed to fashion the means that fit our ends, to cobble together a narrative that reveals…

— Mark Slouka

“Writing fiction feels like an adventurous act, nudging aside reality a word at a time.”

— James Van Pelt

“The theatre can teach us some truth, but it is the truth of the illusory nature of our existence. It can alert us to…

— Terry Eagleton

“Imitations produce pain or pleasure, not because they are mistaken for realities, but because they bring realities to mind.”

— Samuel Johnson