Quotes About Imagination

Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.

A good many people think as I do. If they like my work they are creative . . . or they are crazy.

He writes so well he makes me feel like putting my quill back in my goose.

About my method of work: first it's the state of mind—Elation (joy).

Superman can fly high way up in the sky 'cause we believe he can. So what we choose to believe can always work out fine...It's all in the mind.

Doodling serves as a means of keeping the hand or fingers limber, so that they are always ready for serious work.

If we cannot envision the world we would like to live in, we cannot work towards its creation. If we cannot place ourselves in it in our imagination, we will not believe it is possible.

Two hallmarks of a healthy life are the abilities to love and to work. Each requires imagination.

I never 'say' anything in my work. I invent a world. Let others decide what is being 'said'.

A piece of art is never a finished work. It answers a question which has been asked, and asks a new question.

The work has to have room to breathe.

Illustrators are word people who happen to draw. We work with one foot in a book, the other stuck in a paint pot. Our shoes are a disgrace.

Most inventors and engineers I've met are like me. They're shy and they live in their heads. The very best of them are artists. And artists work best alone.

Every true work of art must express a distinct feeling.

It's the viewer that makes the work.

I like kids' work more than work by real artists any day.

A work of art doesn't have to be explained.

Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without his work suffering impoverishment.

Malevitch discovered abstraction as an experimental principle that can propel creative work to previously unheard levels of invention; this abstract work allowed much greater levels of creativity.

Watch your life as if it were a film. Absorb everything. What you see, hear, and feel will stamp every alphabet of your work.

An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create.

The artist is a spectator, indifferent or impassioned, at the birth of his work, and observes the phases of its development.

I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets.

My use of evenly repeated dots and diagonal lines and uninflected color areas suggest that my work is right where it is, right on the canvas, definitely not a window into the world.