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Quotes About Imagination

The greatest art in the world is the art of storytelling.
~ Cecil B. DeMille
The camera for an artist is just another tool. It is no more mechanical than a violin if you analyze it. Beyond the rudiments, it is up to the artist to create art, not the camera.
~ Unknown
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
~ Brian Eno
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
~ Susan Sontag
A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.
~ Sol LeWitt
I am interested in solving an unknown factor of art and an unknown factor of life.
~ Eva Hesse
Strong and convincing art has never arisen from theories.
~ Mary Wigman
She had a pretty face, but her head was up in space.
~ Avril Lavigne
Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
~ Oscar Wilde
The camera basically is a license to explore.
~ Unknown
If painting is no longer needed, it seems a pity that some of us are born into the world with such a passion for line and color.
~ Mary Cassatt
It would make me feel that creative art has a chance in this crazy world that we all live in.
~ Jimmy Carl Black
I always wanted to be a photographer. I was fascinated with the materials, but I never dreamed I would be having this much fun. I imagined something much less elusive, much more mundane.
~ Lee Friedlander
Rule of art: Cant kills creativity!
~ Camille Paglia
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
~ Igor Stravinsky
The artist is the person who makes life more interesting or beautiful, more understandable or mysterious, or probably, in the best sense, more wonderful.
~ George Bellows
Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.
~ Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
~ George Jean Nathan
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
~ Paul Cezanne
True art lies in a reality that is felt.
~ Odilon Redon
Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe, where you were 'sure' of finding shirts.
~ Frida Kahlo
Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand!
~ Herman Melville