Rafaël

“While I stand and regard it, the indifference to myself shown by a work of art in itself is art.”
― Elizabeth Bowen, A Time in Rome

“L'imagination est une force première. Elle doit naître dans la solitude de l'être imaginant.”
― Gaston Bachelard, Air and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination of Movement

“People are most themselves when suddenly woken, or when they pull darkness over their heads, or when, in the middle of the night, they commit themselves to some momentous decision.”
― Elizabeth Bowen, A Time in Rome

“What the story does do, all it can do, is to transform us from readers into listeners, to whom 'a' voice speaks, the voice of the tribal narrator, squatting in the middle of the cave, and saying one thing after another until the audience falls asleep among their offal and bones. The story is primitive, it reaches back to the origins of literature, before reading was discovered, and it appeals to what is primitive in us. That is why we are so unreasonable over the stories we like, and so ready to bully those who like something else. Intolerance is the atmosphere stories generate.”
― E.M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel