Quotes About Imagination

I have learned that what I have not drawn I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle.

I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.

If I was an artist, and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art.

Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

Without monsters and gods, art cannot enact a drama.

In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

Art is an escape from reality.

All art is autobiographical.

Believe it or not, I can actually draw.

You can't make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it.

Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.

We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.

The art of a magician is to create wonder. If we live with a sense of wonder, our lives become filled with joy.

To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.

If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.

All creation is in the art of seeing.

I don't say everything, but I paint everything.

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.

The world is beautiful but not sayable. That's why we need art.

Through play, we renew contact with childhood – My art is childlike.

If I could read your mind, what a tale your thoughts could tell. Just like a paperback novel, the kind that drugstores sell.

This is what I call participation in the world of ideas. That is what art-making is.