Sensibility... Is A Direct And Particular Reaction To The Separate And Individual Nature Of Things. It Begins And Ends With The Sensuous Apprehension Of Colour, Texture And Formal Relations; And If We Strive To Organize These Elements, It Is Not With The Idea Of Increasing The Knowledge Of The Mind, But Rather In Order To Intensify The Pleasure Of The Senses.

-Herbert Read

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Sensibility... Is A Direct And Particular Reaction

Herbert Read

Sensibility... Is A Direct And Particular Reaction To The Separate And Individual Nature Of Things. It Begins And Ends With The Sensuous Apprehension Of Colour, Texture And Formal Relations; And If We Strive To Organize These Elements, It Is Not With The Idea Of Increasing The Knowledge Of The Mind, But Rather In Order To Intensify The Pleasure Of The Senses.

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Order

Ideas

Mind

Fantasy Is A Product Of Thought, Imagination Of Sensibility. If The Thinking, Discursive Mind Turns To Speculation, The Result Isfantasy; If, However, The Sensitive, Intuitive Mind Turns To Speculation, The Result Is Imagination. Fantasy May Be Visionary, But It Is Cold And Logical. Imagination Is Sensuous And Instinctive. Both Have Form, But The Form Of Fantasy Is Analogous To Exposition, That Of Imagination To Narrative.

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Imagination

Mind