Quotes About Imagination

Painting as it is now promises to become more subtle - more like music and less like sculpture - and above all it promises color. If only it keeps this promise.

It's exciting to consider how art, in its ability to reveal, can be ahead of the artist.

Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.

What has reason to do with the art of painting?

Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every abstract form, from all that is of the brain only.

In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.

Art for me is like breathing. When I stop breathing, what happens?

Artists are magicians and I definitely think John Lennon was a Wizard.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

Art is making something out of nothing, and selling it.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way... things I had no words for.

I have things in my head that are not like what anyone taught me — shapes and ideas so near to me, so natural to my way of being and thinking.

I see art in everything. Your shoes. That car. This coffee cup. It's art if you see it as art.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine

Good artists exist simply in what they make and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

Two boys arrived yesterday with a pebble they said was the head of a dog until I pointed out that it was really a typewriter.

Art fuels the fire inside me.

Solitary walks are great for getting new ideas. It's like you're in a video game and you pick up idea coins on the way.

Philosophers wonder when they do not know, artists when they do.

I make art when I can't gather the words to say.

All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.

Art manifests itself in paradoxical ways. At times it creates and at times it gets created!