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Quotes About Imagination

The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds.
~ Jawaharlal Nehru
Pictures just come to my mind and I tell my heart to go ahead.
~ Horace Pippin
Art is not only about angst.
~ John Corigliano
The purpose of art is mystery.
~ Rene Magritte
Art is a line around your thoughts.
~ Gustav Klimt
The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it.
~ Oscar Wilde
Without atmosphere a painting is nothing.
~ Rembrandt
Art is something that happens inside us. We look at things in the world, and we become excited by them. We understand our own possibilities of becoming. And that's what art is.
~ Jeff Koons
If you subtracted all of the great artists who never drank, who never went to excess, you wouldn't have any more art left. What kind of poem are you gonna get out of a glass of iced tea?
~ David Lee Roth
Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.
~ Man Ray
Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
~ Marianne Moore
Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.
~ Anais Nin
Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair.
~ John Milton
Anything is art if an artist says it is.
~ Marcel Duchamp
Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.
~ Paul Klee
Art only begins where Imitation ends.
~ Oscar Wilde
Everything I do is completely original-I made it up when I was a kid.
~ Claes Oldenburg
Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.
~ Georges Seurat
Art is a magic which makes the hours melt away and even days dissolve into seconds
~ Leonora Carrington
To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.
~ Richard Avedon
The sky is the ultimate art gallery just above us.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art is the most beautiful deception of all!
~ Claude Debussy
That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen.
~ Edward Gordon Craig
The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious.
~ Richard Wagner