Quotes About Imagination

I'm not the kind of artist who has an idea and then carries it out; it's more like I find what the idea was through doing the paintings.

Sometimes people only see horrible, terrible things in my paintings.

I really want to continue doing art. I would love to go back to doing paintings one day.

I've been attracted to imagery and occasionally I've drawn from it, but I never thought I'd be painting these paintings. I didn't have any desire to. I didn't think there was any reason to.

The people I feel inspired around draw pictures, they make paintings.

I used to change things in my early paintings to get the nuance or feeling I wanted, but now I plan everything in my head before I do it.

Being a creative person, I'm naturally drawn towards art of any kind. But I'm more attracted to paintings because they radiate an aura of their own.

I feel blessed every day when I'm working on these paintings... the first artist to ever go to another world and try to tell stories that people care about.

I'm sure I've been influenced by every fine writer I've ever read, from Dickens and Austen to Auden and Jane Hirshfield. And also, the short stories of Updike, Cheever, Munro, Alice Adams, and Doris Lessing. And the plays of Oscar Wilde. And paintings by Alice Neel and Matisse.

I saw Frank Frazetta's art, and it seared on my memory. I love his paintings. They're so amazing.

Many, many of my paintings have come from the first chapter of Moby Dick.

When you're working on a film, it's almost like photographing paintings at a museum. You're photographing somebody else's world. I just try and interpret it and make it real, and make it what the actors are about, what the director is about, and what the film is about.

I've dreamed landscapes for years, and my dreams play an enormous role in my work. In fact, when I first started doing landscapes I felt insecure about painting in this style, and the dreams were like positive omens for me, and I've done a few paintings that were exact replicas of images that came to me in dreams.

I've had encounters with animals that have been really mystical. I've always been really into animals. But the way they appear in the paintings, they come from my mind's eye more than: 'I'm gonna draw a dog now.' It isn't thought out: 'Now I'm gonna draw a bird.' They just appear.

That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.

I love art, in particular, paintings. I have, well, a lot.

The great thing about a painter is that he or she lives on - I mean, Andrew Wyeth is more in his paintings than he was walking around.

I had a major bug for cities and for paintings and literature and all the things I thought went on in cities.

Poetry offers works of art that are beautiful, like paintings, which are my second favorite work of the art, but there are also works of art that embody emotion and that are kind of school for feeling. They teach how to feel, and they do this by the means of their beauty of language.

I think of film when I paint. Even the luminosity that I always keep working for is really about film. But my idea is not to paint paintings that will decorate somebody's house.

If you look at ancient Chinese paintings, you see mountains, but they are not real mountains; it is something the artists imagined.

I was an arts student. I did graphic design. Being an artist, I did a lot of paintings. I have always had that creative side to me.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

My mum says I was the best kid ever; you could put me in a corner with a box of paints and I'd be happy for hours. They'd say, 'Lynne, Lynne,' and I wouldn't hear them.