“What modern art required was an imagination drawn to possibilities, rather than braced by smug presumptions.”
“The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.”
“Do not ask, "Is is possible?" rather, "Is is worth what it will require of me to make it happen?”
“Etiquette requires the presumption of good until the contrary is proved.”
“With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.”
“The true function of logic ... as applied to matters of experience ... is analytic rather than constructive; taken a priori, it shows the possibility of hitherto unsuspected alternatives more often than the impossibility of alternatives which seemed prima facie possible. Thus, while it liberates imagination as to what the world may be, it refuses to legislate as to what the world is”