“The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.”
Samuel Johnson, letter to Hester Thrale, Sept. 21, 1773
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
by ldemanski
“The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.”
Samuel Johnson, letter to Hester Thrale, Sept. 21, 1773
An ArtsJournal Blog