For Jefferson, Imagination was the realm of the arts. The nucleus of his personal collection of books on architecture, music, literature, and criticism has grown to include all forms of American creativity. Imagination has inspired men and women to create our built environment of churches and cities and parks; to delight our senses with music and theater and dance; to fill our leisure with the engaging diversions of games and competitions and fine cuisine; to test our physical limits in dance and sport; and to find the words that express what we feel and think and shape those words into poetry and prose. With the
old technology of the printing press and the new technologies of recording
sound, sight, and motion, Imagination creates new forms of expression
and frees humankind from the constraints of time and space.
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Cândido Portinari
Library of Congress