Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality. (Cyril Connolly)

Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.

Cyril Connolly

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