W. Somerset Maugham Quote

Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an escape from reality, but the means by which he accedes to it.


The partial view (ed. London, Heinemann, 1954)


Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an escape from...

Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an escape from...

Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an escape from...

Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an escape from...