Quotes About Imagination

An art machine is a system whose parts when put in motion act upon each other in such a way as to cause you to see things differently

Self-creation is the highest art.

The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to entertain, to make things up. The art of what I do lies not in research or even recollection but primarily in invention.

Only art means anything.

Science and art have in common intense seeing, the wide-eyed observing that generates empirical information.

Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.

Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft.

Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.

I don't like to write a script unless I know who the artist is. A lot of people can do it without that, and that's cool, but I like to look at the art.

Reveal art; conceal the artist.

Music takes us where words cannot.

Art should be born from the materials.

I wanted not to make photographs that would be art, but art that would be photography.

I went back to my mother's house recently and I saw some of my earlier works as a 15-year-old art student. And a lot of them were reiterations of classic works.

Nobody needs an Artist, but everyone needs ART.

Art can make chaos seductive.

I still think of Heaven as a liberal-arts school.

Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.

It's nice to have a little bit of art to fall back on.

Artists make art... everyone else talks about it.

The art of fiction does not begin until the novelist thinks of his story as a matter to be shown, to be so exhibited that it will tell itself.

...combining the concrete and the universal is at the center of what makes art important.

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about.

The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art.