Quotes About Imagination

All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.

If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

The soul cannot thrive in the absence of art.

Art must not be intelligent; art is a jouisance, an enjoyment

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

The Art of Seeing. It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean, to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis.

Making art is a lot about just seeing what happens if you put some energy into something.

I've decided that art is a habit-forming drug. That's all it is, for the artist, for the collector, for anybody connected with it.

Most of the work I make uses materials that are a bit outside of the traditional fine art world.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

Cutting straight into color reminds me of the direct carving of the sculptor.

The painting is finished when the idea has disappeared.

I paint what I think, not what I see.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

Art should never be sociological; it has got to be timeless. It's got to be your vision and how you can represent the world you see.

The cinema occupies an important place in the overall development of art and literature.

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings

All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist.

Where the material ends, art begins.

Art does not come from thinking but from responding.