Quotes About Imagination

I think so much of art is unconscious anyway, the artist doesn't know the real reason they're doing it. They're just kind of going along with it intuitively.

For me taking a pragmatic decision when it comes to art is almost an oxymoron. The reason I first picked up a pen and wrote a story had nothing pragmatic in it.

Only a lunatic would think that art is superior to nature.

Art is the one thing that's the universal virtue that you can have in any class.

I wanted to be a painter and an artist. And it's interesting that in some of my later musical works, I refer so often and associate myself with works of art.

Art is a place where you can be wild. Kids-all of us-need that.

Art is a point of view, and a genius way of looking at things.

Art is contemplation of the world in a state of grace and imaginatively reflecting that subjective understanding.

Art is a kind of artificial memory and the pain which attends all serious art is a sense of that factitiousness.

The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.

Art is the human process that produces by the way (it is not its only or ultimate object) Secondary Belief.

Art is an adventure that never seems to end.

Art is enchantment and artists have the right of spells.

Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother tongue.

Art is a self-replicating force.

Art isn't just paint and music, art is breaking glass and the sounds we make without realizing.

Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.

The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Art is amoral, whether we accept this or not; it does not take sides. The finest fictions are cold at heart.

One of the challenges to our nation today is overcoming the notion that art is kind of a nice-to-have, when in reality art is a need-to-have.

Art is a journey of discovery.

If you can draw the stone rightly, everything within reach of art is also within yours.

What's beautiful about art is that it circumscribes a space, a physical and mental space. If you try to put the entire world into every page, you turn out chaos.

Perhaps art is simply an organism's reaction against its retentive limitations.