Quotes About Imagination

Imagination is a powerful deceiver.

Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art.

I don't believe too much in originality... you learn art from other art and then looking into somebody's face or landscape is the point of departure to do your work of art.

There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don't know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.

Art does not imitate, but interpret.

This idea of art for art's sake is a hoax.

The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter his rhyme.

Drawing is the true test of art.

An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.

And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.

For ages past the Genius of Literature and the Genius of Art have walked together hand in hand. For the Goddess of letters is blind, and only she of Art can lend her sight.

The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.

Although even when I am being idle I have plenty of food for thought both early and late - thoughts both about and not about art.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.

In the art game we do our own cooking.

The picture must all come out of the artist's inside, awareness of forms and figures... It is more than memory. It is the image as it lives in the consciousness, alive like a vision, but unknown.

When art dresses itself in the most worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

Mathematics is the purest of the arts, as well as the most misunderstood.

Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.

Don't think about making art.