Quotes About Vision

I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to create.

To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes.

Great art stretches the taste, it doesn't follow tastes.

As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things.

Imagination is a powerful deceiver.

Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art.

An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.

The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.

Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.

The picture must all come out of the artist's inside, awareness of forms and figures... It is more than memory. It is the image as it lives in the consciousness, alive like a vision, but unknown.

Don't think about making art.

Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

I am an illusionist - that's why I create art.

O gentle vision in the dawn: My spirit over faint cool water glides, Child of the day, To thee; And thou art drawn By kindred impulse over silver tides The dreamy way To me.

Art isn't about drawing; it's about learning to see. What organization doesn't need this ability?

Most artists are surrealists. ... always dreaming something and then they paint it.

Science and art have in common intense seeing, the wide-eyed observing that generates empirical information.

I wanted not to make photographs that would be art, but art that would be photography.

Rule of art: let half-blind purpose lead you.

Without an elite in the arts, we have no leaders, which is to say we have no vision, which is to say we have no arts.

You have to challenge people to reconsider what is art, what is taste. Because it's someone's point-of-view.

Artists are prophets. They define the meaning of our lives and point the way.