Quotes About Imagination

It is through art that we will prevail and we will endure. It lives on after us and defines us as people.

I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned.

I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.

Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.

That is what art is at the end of the day: It's an escapism that we all crave.

abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality.

A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.

Above all, art should be fun.

Photoshop is an art, and you can do a lot with it. Change the atmosphere through different lighting and make the pictures look more interesting.

A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.

Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.

The painter makes real to others his innermost feelings about all that he cares for. A secret becomes known to everyone who views the picture through the intensity with which it is felt.

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.

The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.

And what more could I possibly ask as an artist than that your most precious visions, however rare, assume sometimes the forms of my images.

When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting.

Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don't see a different purpose for it now.

Every person who is really an artist desires to create inside of himself another, deeper, more interesting life than the one that actually surrounds him.