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Quotes About Imagination

In art, to express the infinite one should suggest infinitely more than is expressed.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I don't wish power, only art -art and passion.
~ Anais Nin
When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild.
~ T Bone Burnett
An artist's career always begins tomorrow
~ James Whistler
Creativity is an act of defiance.
~ Twyla Tharp
Great art stretches the taste, it doesn't follow tastes.
~ Steve Jobs
Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.
~ E. B. White
Creative expression and visual comprehension are really the handmaidens of art. One cannot thrive without the other.
~ Ken Danby
Art is one of the dirtiest words in our language; it's mucked up with all kinds of meanings. There's the art of plumbing; there's the art of almost anything that you can say.
~ Wayne Thiebaud
If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning.
~ Gerhard Richter
Exposure to the arts and culture is enormously valuable.
~ Kevin Spacey
The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just as writing is.
~ John Ruskin
Originality in art puts charm where it wasn't.
~ Eli Siegel
Do you know that drawing with words is also an art... ?
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Why do humans make art? It's how we evolved.
~ Denis Dutton
A wasp in a wig is altogether beyond the appliances of art.
~ John Tenniel
Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live
~ Remy de Gourmont
Art matures. It is the formal elaboration of activity, complete in its own pattern. It is a cosmos of its own.
~ Baker Brownell
I'm a huge fan of animation, and just the arts in general - anything that emanates from someone's mind and soul and is capable of touching other people's minds and souls.
~ Charles Fleischer
Art can make the old surprising, and the new and sudden soothing.
~ Eli Siegel
As to what I would like to be, it is difficult to say. An artist of some kind. If nothing else I shall always study the Arts.
~ Jackson Pollock
I never really consider myself as a great artist. I just always like to draw.
~ Tim Burton
Then sculpture and her sister arts revived; stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live.
~ Alexander Pope
I figured out that art would be the perfect place for me because what's encouraged is the invention of languages.
~ Unknown