Quotes About Imagination

Whether it be personal or musical, I just think Im a walking art piece, just a ball of creativity.

There is never a lack of subject matter; just absence of creativity.

Cerebration is the enemy of originality in art.

The purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder.

But let's speak of art for a moment. Yes, art. I know a gentleman who makes excellent portraits. This gentleman is a camera.

The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.

Art's only concern with the real is to abolish it, and to substitute for it a new reality

Our thoughts are to the individual as our art is to the community.

Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection.

He who loses the arts loses the culture.

But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched with the same madness and genius.

What art does is to coax us away from the mechanical and towards the miraculous.

Why shouldn't art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.

One of the functions of art is to offer a more desirable reality - a model, as it were, of another style of existence with its own pace and its own cultural reference.

I believe that every innovative thought comes from a creative mindset....A creative mindset is what drives our world, and art is the base of that.

All art is self-portraiture.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.

Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible.

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

The artist confronts chaos. The whole thing of art is, how do you organize chaos?