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Quotes About Imagination

fiction and lies are both works of creative art, and creation always reveals the creator.
~ Helen McCloy
I was a real art freak when I was a teenager.
~ Helen McCrory
...I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture.
~ Henri Matisse
Creation is the artist's true function; where there is no creation there is no art.
~ Henri Matisse
Art in its widest sense is the extension of the personality: a host of artificial limbs.
~ Herbert Read
Everything is inspiring! It could be fine art or a conversation I have with somebody!
~ Hiromi
Art for art's sake. [Lat., Ars gratia artis.]
~ Howard Dietz
I find inspiration in everything from a piece of art to the hem of a dress.
~ Idara Victor
Normal people do not create art.
~ Irving Stone
There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words.
~ J. G. Holland
Fantasy (in this sense) is, I think, not a lower but a higher form of Art, indeed the most nearly pure form, and so (when achieved) the most potent.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
And its object is Art not power, sub-creation not domination and tyrannous re-forming of Creation.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
His dreams are like commercials.
~ Jack Johnson
Why dont they stick to murder and leave art to us?
~ Jacob Epstein
I am the most curious of all to see what will be the next thing that I will do.
~ Jacques Lipchitz
Creativity is not passive, I don't see the creation of art as passive.
~ James Kelman
Pan, who and what art thou?" he cried huskily. "I'm youth, I'm joy," Peter answered at a venture, "I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
~ James M. Barrie
Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.
~ James Mangold
Most of the faint intimations of immortality of which we are occasionally aware would seem to arise out of Art or the materials of Art.
~ James Thurber
When advertising is great, it's transcendent. It's art.
~ Jared Leto
I'm working in my mind.
~ Jasper Johns
There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium!
~ Jean Dubuffet
Realism and art cannot live together.
~ Jeanette Lee
Art should look like art, trees and flowers and people, not weird shapes and splotches of color all smeared together.
~ Jennifer Estep