Quotes About Imagination

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.

It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art.

Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.

The world I feel, within the realm of art, is more genuine than the wrorld of matter. Artistic feeling is not tape measures, spectrographs, or flash camera lens.

My art career actually began under the kitchen table. My mother wanted to get me out of her hair while she cooked, so she laid out some paper and pencils on the floor under the kitchen table.

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

A painting is what you make of it, besides which, 'Moon, Weeping' has a better ring to it than 'Paintbrush, Dripping.

Between the wolf in the tall grass and the wolf in the tall story there is a shimmering go-between. That go-between, that prism, is the art of literature.

I am an illusionist - that's why I create art.

For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.

The theater is necessary. Dance is necessary. Song is necessary. The arts are necessary- they are a necessary part of our lives

I think with art you have to do a bit of transforming of the subject to make the art worth having.

Creativity is the art that can give rise to visionary metaphorical relationships, as opposed to purely psy-chological ones.

I didn't mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit.

Artists, like yourself, are born with a need to express that's just innate.

The process of art-making is full of happy accidents - what fun!

What is art? Nature concentrated.

Making films is great. You've got 100 people around and you're all dressing up and making weird art - it's a fun group activity.

We'll always have art, darling.

Art chooses its constraints.

The art of fiction is freedom of will for your characters.

If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.

If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.