Quotes About Imagination

It is not I that am drawing, it is this thing at the end of my hand.

Art is the conveyance of spirit by means of matter.

I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing to abstract art. That was my first creative thing before guitar or comedy.

Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint.

Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

Art, of course, is a way of thinking, a way of mining reality.

Art is the daughter of pleasure.

Surprise is key in all art.

Picturesqueness is a lost art. We may expect at anytime to hear that a collar ad is blazing its electric lights atop of the largest pyramid.

We cannot underestimate the power of the different art forms, and the correspondences between them, which are an unending source of inspiration and enrichment.

The spontaneous is the most beautiful thing that can appear in a picture, but nothing in art appears less spontaneously than that.

There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.

A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar.

It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him.

Drawing is the cornerstone of the graphic, plastic arts. Drawing is the coordination of line, tone, and color symbols into formations that express the artist's thought.

The artist does not really create; he discovers.

Find the most puzzling kind of art you can think of, and then go out and try to approximate it with your camera. Take a photograph that corresponds to it. (Assignment to students.)

I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.

Art without color would lose much of its purpose.

Cinema is an art form.

The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.