Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes

The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to represent positive truth, but the idealized image of a truth.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Imagination
  • Artist
  • Sculpture