Quotes About Imagination

Donde hay felicidad, hay creación. Cuanto más rica es la creación, más profunda es la felicidad

Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks.

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.

How do you make your pictures? — I don't know, it's not important.

Blessed be childhood which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.

With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.

I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.

The only valid thing in art is the one thing that cannot be explained, to explain away the mystery of a great painting would do irreplaceable harm, for whenever you explain or define something you substitute the explanation or the definition for the

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Creative people are curious, flexible, persistent, and independent with a tremendous spirit of adventure and a love of play.

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

Drawing is putting a line round an idea.

A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

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

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.

Another word for creativity is courage.

You study, you learn, but you guard the original naïveté. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.

El artista comienza con una visión, una operación creativa que requiere un esfuerzo. La creatividad requiere coraje.

Creativity takes courage

At the age of eight, I still dreamed of being granted plant status.

Books are boring to read. You can't move around in them as you wish. You are asked to follow. The trail is traced, one way.

First man knows, then he understands, last he sees, or thinks he sees, and embroiders. In the same way the true poet creates, then understands...sometimes.