Quotes About Imagination

But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live.

A work of art comes only from inside a human being.

I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.

Art is not about something, Art is something

I was born into a world of art. I always thought that in life, you breathe, you eat, you go to sleep and you draw.

Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake.

A painting which does not take its inspiration from the heart is nothing more than futile juggling.

There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.

An artist can accomplish anything provided he doesn't accept facts or defeat for more than a few minutes.

The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe.

I draw manga, therefore I am!

Outside is the world; it's there. Pop Art looks out into the world.

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

I am for an art that grows up not knowing it is art at all.

In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself.

I paint my own reality.

Art is more to do with observation than invention.

All art forms employ some means through which images become real.

Art does not solve problems but makes us aware of their existence. It opens our eyes to see and our brain to imagine.

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

Food can be expressive and therefore food can be art.

Art is a kind of illness.

The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.