Quotes About Imagination

You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life

People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.

Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.

I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone.

Surrealism is not a movement. It is a latent state of mind perceivable through the powers of dream and nightmare.

When we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another.

If you understand your painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.

I am the Don Quixote of unreality.

Dalí is one marvellous painter, but in living times he's one marvellous clown —more interesting for everybody.

I'm too intelligent to be a good painter; to be a good painter you've got to be a bit stupid - with the exception of Velázquez who is a genius.

I never took drugs, because I am drugs

I always paint those vast sandy expanses that go as far as the eye can see. I don't know why; I have never been in North Africa. I suppose it's an atavism of the Arab blood.

What is surrealism?// A spontaneous method of irrational knowledge based on the critical and systematic objectivity of the associations and interpretations of delirious phenomena.

A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath

Circumstances are the seeds of literature.

Literature is an art, and the essence of all art is mood.

And although Margarita lived in a world that predated Technicolor, she always dreamed of the boy in rich pastels.

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I believe the poem is a sacramental act, pure devotion to whatever may be revealed only through the music of intuition. The dance of the intellect, the dance of wild imagination, illuminates what cannot otherwise be known.