Quotes About Imagination

I hope with all my heart there will be painting in heaven.

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

The idea is in my head; to put it down is nothing.

I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream.

A good painter is to paint two main things, namely men and the working of man's mind.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

I mix them with my brains, sir.

In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.

Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing we see today, made by past generations, was, before its appearance, a thought in the mind of a man or an impulse in the heart of a woman.

Photographers, along with dentists, are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every photographer is a painter trying to get out.

When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies, "Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life."

No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher.

All men are poets at heart.

Poets have a license to lie.

Poetry is an echo asking a shadow to dance.

Before a painter puts a brush to his canvas he sees his picture mentally.... If you think of yourself in terms of a painting, what do you see? ... Is the picture one you think worth painting? ... You create yourself in the image you hold in your mind.

Short of genius, a rich man cannot imagine poverty.

I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.

If there were any justice in the world, people would be able to fly over pigeons for a change.

When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.

What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.