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Quotes About Imagination

Any art which can be subjected to an analytical process is, by this very fact, removed from the possibility of being art.
~ Unknown
for my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated.
~ Ellen Glasgow
Art grabs people by their eyeballs, it seduces them. Especially if the picture is very beautiful or very sexy or just really weird, if it has some surreal element in it.
~ Eric Drooker
Art keeps one young, I think, because it keeps one perpetually a beginner, perpetually a child.
~ Erica Jong
Making reality real is art's responsibility.
~ Eudora Welty
Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.
~ Eugene Delacroix
One of my favorite things about art, especially at a gallery, is hearing people talk about the art. I find it quite amusing.
~ Eugene Souleiman
Art has more ego to it than what I do.
~ Eva Zeisel
I cannot live without art: it excites me, it challenges me, and it leads me to the next thing.
~ Francisco Costa
Ideas and art are the possibility of an answer tomorrow.
~ Frederick Sommer
Mathematics is really an art, not a science.
~ Freeman Dyson
You could say science also is an art.
~ Freeman Dyson
If there is to be art, if there is to be any aesthetic doing and seeing, one physiological condition is indispensable: frenzy.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a phenomenon.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Art depends upon the inexactitude of sight.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
Fine art, poetry, that kind of thing, elevates a nation.
~ George Eliot
The artist is called a creator.
~ George Henry Lewes
Most art in the world does not have a capital 'A,' but is a way of turning everyday objects into personal expressions.
~ Gloria Steinem
I believe that art has incredible power.
~ Gloria Steinem
You never really know what the director has got in his mind as far as the scene visually and art direction wise.
~ Guy Pearce
In reality, however, an artist is a product of art
~ Harold Rosenberg
I think you can do anything with comics that you could do in just about any art form.
~ Harvey Pekar
We're writers. What do we do? We tell stories. We make up stories. We create art.
~ Hector Tobar