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Quotes About Imagination

I've taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art.
~ Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
Human requirements are the inspiration for art.
~ Stephen Gardiner
Internet can provide the power to believe in art in new formulas, because it is the newest medium for art.
~ Terence Koh
Art comes into being in that abstract interval between a thought and reality, and no one - not even the artist who created it - can remeasure the influences that caused it.
~ Edgar Alwin Payne
It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws.
~ Marcel Duchamp
Art isn't a product. It's an experience
~ Unknown
The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves.
~ Zadie Smith
I'm married to an artist. I get a lot of inspiration from art, from the lighting in art, from the compositions in art, from the textures, and all of that. I'm always playing with it.
~ Unknown
The power of art can open our minds.
~ Unknown
There are no mistakes and it's never boring on the edge of imagination, which is only pure spirit having a bit of fun.
~ Wavy Gravy
In art there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists
~ Paul Gauguin
To me, art supplies are always okay to buy.
~ Louis C. K.
In every artist there is poetry. In every human being there is the poetic element. We know, we feel, we believe.
~ Ernst Haas
If the liberal arts do nothing else they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace.
~ Roger Zelazny
Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry
~ Ezra Pound
Most artists are surrealists. ... always dreaming something and then they paint it.
~ Dong Kingman
Movies are a collective art. Art by proxy.
~ Sylvester Stallone
Technology is technology and then art form and people's creativity is another thing. Anything that helps an artist do anything - great! Technology for technology sake doesn't mean much to me anyway.
~ Tim Burton
I don't pretend to know anything about art. I make pictures for entertainment, and then the professors tell me what they mean.
~ Walt Disney
Art for me is like breathing.
~ Yoko Ono
Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them.
~ Flannery O'Connor
Art is a delayed echo.
~ George Santayana