Quotes About Imagination

Art is not emotion. Art is the medium in which emotion is expressed.

Art transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary.

Art is an outsider, a gypsy over the face of the earth.

I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.

Drawing is deception.

Sight is a faculty; seeing is an art.

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

To all appearances, the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing.

Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.

The video camera dominates art. It's a bore, it makes everything look a bit the same. If you look at things with a pencil and paper in your hand, you are going to see far more.

Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.

Creativity is the art of concealing your sources.

Painting is like breathing to me. It's what I do all the time. Every day I make art, whether it is painting, writing or making a movie.

I do dream about art, and images come to me in dreams. I am definitely hoping to be in touch with my subconscious. I expect a call any minute.

On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.

Works of art are landscapes of the mind.

Kunst gibt nicht das Sichtbare wieder, sondern macht sichtbar. Art does not reproduce the visible; rather it makes visible.

I think artists almost always end up turning to what's around them, what's in their environment or outside their window.

Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist.

Art is for stimulation, excitement, adventure.

The aim of art is to create space.

Any genuine work of art generates new work.

If we expose kids to books and art, nothing but good can come from it.

The invention of photography destroyed the canons of representational, imitative art.