They are the gateway for our modern esthetic development, the prophets of the new time. They are most of all, the primitives of the way they have begun; they have voiced most of all the imperative need of essential personalism, of direct expression of direct experience. Marsden Hartley
We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Rich or poor, every child comes into the world with some imperative need of its own, which shapes its individuality. Lucy Larcom
When the person Myth meets the person Reality The spirit of the impossible-strange appears In dark disguise It is always there where nothing inverts itself and becomes something Whatever is the imperative need. Sun Ra