That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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Ch. XIVSamuel Taylor Coleridge
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Every will, every will, every will
oh every will is a suspension of disbelief.Modest Mouse
It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.
Lionel Trilling
Alienation is the most common state of the knowledgeable movie audience, and though it has the peculiar rewards of low connoisseurship, a miser’s delight in small favors, we long to be surprised out of it — not to suspension of disbelief nor to a Brechtian kind of alienation, but to pleasure, something a man can call good without self-disgust.
Pauline Kael
The paramount relation between poetry and painting today, between modern man and modern art, is simply this: that in an age in which disbelief is so profoundly prevalent or, if not disbelief, indifference to questions of belief, poetry and painting, and the arts in general, are, in their measure, a compensation for what has been lost. Men feel that the imagination is the next greatest power to faith: the reigning prince.
Wallace Stevens
If you have a faith, if you've some deep conviction, whether you're a Nazi or a Communist or what the hell else you are — then you can sacrifice yourself and others to your faith. But from the moment you've no faith — from that moment you live in a deep inner confusion — from then on you're exposed to what Strindberg calls 'the powers'.
Ingmar Bergman
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Colesworthy, Daniel Clement
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