Quotes About Imagination

The art finds kingdoms in a foot of ground.

No art comes from the conscious mind.

Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography.

Artists are prophets. They define the meaning of our lives and point the way.

I'm a terrible cook, but if I could cook, I would see that in art as well, it's how much creative energy you put into something.

The art of acting is to be other than what you are.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin.

Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man.

All art is abstract, because art is an abstraction of the truth.

I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don't normally get to go.

Maybe you are a poet and a dreamer, but don't you realize that those two species are extinct now?

Where does contagion end and art begin?

Art is my life and my life is art.

Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.

Not everybody has a talent for painting, or for the piano, or for dance. But we can write our way into the artist's head and into his problems and solutions. Or we can go there with another writer.

I appreciated art, long before I could produce it.

I view art as an inspirational tool.

Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish patterns out of chaos.

Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.

Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning.

Filmmaking can be a fine art.

Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.

In art school we're always taught that art is an end in itself - art for art's sake, expressing yourself, and that that's enough.