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Quotes About Artistry

Art is ruled uniquely by the imagination.
~ Benedetto Croce
The pioneer scientist must have "a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction, but by artistically creative imagination."
~ Max Planck
You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision.
~ William Blake
The creative universe begins with its essentiality, and, whatever path the imagination takes, ends with its purity.
~ Giorgio Armani
An artist's imagination is his greatest tool
~ Michael Jackson
To write a song you must have an imagination, to have an imagination you must be free.
~ Bruno Mars
Imagination grows by exercise.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
God has given us our talents, not to copy the talents of others, but rather to use our brains and imagination in order to obtain the revelation of true beauty.
~ Louis Comfort Tiffany
Where bright imagination reigns, the fine-wrought spirit feels acuter pains.
~ Hannah More
I think of myself as a songwriter, a weaver of story and imagination in a way that a novelist might write a book.
~ PJ Harvey
Let it be fact, one feels, or let it be fiction; the imagination will not serve under two masters simultaneously.
~ Virginia Woolf
I believe that imagination inspires nations. It's something that I live by.
~ Janelle Monae
I need paper and pen to release my imagination. I can't create on a machine.
~ Brian Pinkerton
A picture is first of all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy.
~ Edgar Degas
Authors do not supply imaginations.
~ Nella Larsen
We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.
~ Terry Brooks
Only you can prevent the genocide of the imagination.
~ Rob Brezsny
I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the outer space of the imagination.
~ Martha Graham
Imagination is my best friend.
~ Neil Young
Imagination is the hood ornament on your car of creativity.
~ Gary Busey
Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.
~ Philip José Farmer
[Great artists] do not copy what they see, but what they desire.
~ Theophile Gautier
Everyone is a creative agent. ... The tools are your imagination and your imagination is limitless.
~ Oliver Herring