Quotes About Imagination

art is at least in part a way of collecting information about the universe.

Works of art... do not force meanings on their audience; meaning emerges, adds up, unfolds from their imagined centres... takes one through the process of discovering meaning.

All art is holy. Not that it is all long-faced and miserable; it can be wild and wooly. But if it transforms you, it is art. And it is holy.

Art is an artifice that you try to make seem natural.

Art is an artificial organization of experience.

We lose ourselves in stories; that's the beauty of literary art.

The art isn't there to be purchased - it's there to be enjoyed.

Art is often confused with the skill of drawing. It is the skill of making.

Making art is an act of courage. Do you know who said that?

Art is just as comprehensible as science, but in its own terms.

Of course, in the art class, I was the model.

I'd live in a museum if I could. I used to spend hours and hours in the Museum of Modern Art.

If I'm doing my job correctly, I'm presenting a scenario for you as the reader to engage with on your own. I mean that's what the best art is supposed to do.

I'm interested in Jackson Pollock's kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it's nothing, and yet it's incredible.

The most useful thing about art is it's uselessness.

I collect art books. I have hundreds and hundreds of them and they get me to start hearing things. Sometimes people look at them, but I find that visual art gets me listening, gets me hearing things.

Art is running away without ever leaving home.

Art is not a copy of the real world; one of the damn things is enough.

Despite the fact that I'm not highly skilled in any visual art, aesthetics have always played a strong role in my art, including my first albums.

Art is what is irresistible.

Art is an effort to make you walk a half an inch above ground.

Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.

While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.

Art should stimulate.