Leigh Hunt Quotes

Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong

A feeling is not a fact.

there is no reasoning with imagination.

Art does not tolerate reason.

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

The words are ludicrous at times, but you add the reality to it and that gives it the balance it has.

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.

It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.

But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.

Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world inside our mind, which is just as important.

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. Some men, like bats or owls, have better eyes for the darkness than for the light. We, who have no such optical powers, are better pleased to take our last parting look at the visionary companions of many solitary hours, when the brief sunshine of the world is blazing full upon them.

Art is magic, not logic. This craze for the logical spirit in irrational shape is part of the present harmful mania for uniformity.

Art is as heavy as sorrow, as light as a breeze, as bright as an idea, as pretty as a picture, as funny as money, and as fugitive as fraud!

Your ideas need not have anything to do with reality. Making conclusions is a sure way of not enhancing our perception.

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.

Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.

Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express everything that man can, wants to, and has to express. I think God built this into man. Art along with science is the highest gift God has given him.