Quotes About Imagination

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

I am tired of myself tonight. I should like to be somebody else.

I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.

All art is quite useless.

You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and intellect, because you realized the dreams of great poets and gave shape and substance to the shadows of art. You have thrown it all away. You are shallow and stupid.

Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

She lives the poetry she cannot write.

I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.

The great events of the world take place in the brain...

every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.

Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never happened or couldn't possibly have happened.

As for believing things, I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

Imagination is a quality that was given to man compensate him from whats not. The sense of humor was given to console him from what is.

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

My dear boy, the people who only love once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect—simply a confession of failures.

It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

She lives in the poetry she cannot write.

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.