Quotes About Imagination

Art is not to throw light but to be light.

Art at its greatest is fantastically deceitful and complex.

All art needs this visible world and will always need it. Quite simply because, being accessible to all, it is the key to all other worlds.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

A game played with serious problems. That's what art is.

The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.

"Art is the ability to turn one's gaze to the world of oblivion." This is the way in which I understand art at fundamental level.

Art exists because reality is neither real nor significant.

Art is fundamental, unique to each of us...Even in difficult economic times - especially in difficult economic times, the arts are essential.

Art is not living. It is the use of living. The artist has the ability to take the living and use it in a certain way and produce art.

I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.

The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world.

In the end nobody knows how it's done — how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools. Understanding a tool doesn't explain the magic of creation. Nothing can.

The camera can photograph thought. It's better than a paragraph of sweet polemic.

You cannot explain me with "isms." They are very bad for an artist. What one must believe in is color.

Art is an investigation.

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

Art addresses itself to the mind, and not to the eyes. It has always been considered in this way by primitive peoples, and they are right.

What counts most is finding new ways to get the world down in paint on my own terms.

Art tells gorgeous lies that come true.

That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.

We do not make art. We have unnamable motors and dangerous impulses that occupy our thoughts.

Mystery is the basic element of all works of art.

Without electricity, there can be no art.