Quotes About Imagination

That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen.

Is thinking small?" asked Isobel. "Small as air." May tapped my head with her finger. "And just as big.

Consider these words from Lech Wa??sa: In the past, you could stand with a gun behind a man who had a pick and a spade and tell him to dig a hole two hundred meters long. But you can't put a man behind someone working creatively, behind a computer, and tell him, "Please devise something original." There is no way to do it

There are many things which cannot be imagined," the Chinese say, "but there is nothing which may not happen.

A clean sheet of paper has no blotches," wrote Mao, "and so the newest and most beautiful words can be written on it, the newest and most beautiful pictures can be painted on it.

Every time you wanted to do something, you'd hope it would score. You'd keep trying and trying, and all of the sudden, something would come right out of left field, like 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.' No one had any idea about that one.

Before we can do anything, we must be able to imagine it.

Nothing substitutes for what can be found when we embrace the world of books.

Advertising is a bit like playing make-believe.

And so, every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

An artist cannot talk about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

Art holds fast when all else is lost.

Author unknown, c.1980s

Let your imagination take you wherever you want to be. This piece of canvas truly is your world.

I found that I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say in any other way — things I had no words for.

Painting is my escape from reality. I can literally create any kind of world that I want — with tranquility and peace. All my little animal friends, they all live right here with me.

The object of true art is to charm the imagintion...

I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.

An artist makes visual the rhythms and arrhythmias of the universe.

Artists talk to themselves on canvas, mumbling scattered colors of emotion.

When painting, an artist must take care not to trap his soul in the canvas.

An artist must be careful not to throw his ideas out with the trash.

Picasso would give up cubism just to capture your curves.