Quotes About Imagination

To think is first of all to create a world (or to limit one's own world, which comes to the same thing).

Without freedom there is no art.

Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help

It is my hope that photography may fall in line with all the other arts and with her infinite possibilities, do things strange and more fascinating than the most fantastic dreams.

Why should not the camera artist break away from the worn out conventions and claim the freedom of expression which any art must have to be alive.

It would nice to live in a world where art can just be art!

picture, n. A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three.

I've never really dreamed of owning a home. I don't think you go into the arts and also dream of owning a home.

An artist cannot get along without a public; and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.

Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship.

Only the poor can create art.

It's art that's taught me to think and to write.

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations.

Art simply can't be stopped.

Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you.

Picture-taking is an ensemble art-like theater.

All science touches on art; all art has its scientific side.

Film and art are close together.

Art that only comes from the head isn't any good. Watch any good musician and you'll see what I mean.

Take a quart of nature, boil it down to a pint, and the residue is art.

It sounds kind of flighty, filmmaker-y, but I believe films are a piece of art. They are meant to be what they're meant to be, and sometimes the artist is informed by the film of what it needs to be.

The artist always has been and still is a being somewhat apart from the rest of humanity.

Cooking certainly has some of the elements of an art form.

That's why I'm concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds. Education is my next big thing. When music and art were taken out of the schools, I went berserk!