Milan Kundera Quotes about Imagination

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There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.

Milan Kundera

Pain, Compassion, Imagination

"The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

Milan Kundera

Art, Imagination, Modern

"Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Series Seven". Book editing by George Plimpton, Interview with Christian Salmon (Fall 1983), 1988.

Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? Instead of letting themselves be carried away by his unequaled imagination, they look for allegories - and come up with nothing but clichés: life is absurd (or it is not absurd), God is beyond reach (or within reach), etc. You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

Milan Kundera

Art, People, Imagination

"Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Series Seven". Book edited by George Plimpton, October 1, 1986.