Quotes About Imagination

A work of art cannot be satisfied with being a representation it should be a presentation.

Painting is silent poetry and poetry is painting with the gift of speech

Children like animals use all their senses to discover the world. Then artists come along and discover it the same way all over again.

Conception my boy fundamental brainwork is what makes the difference in all art.

Art does not reproduce the visible rather it makes it visible.

A work of art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

Art gropes it stalks like a hunter lost in the woods listening to itself and to everything around it unsure of itself waiting to pounce.

Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which throughout his lifetime he draws what he is and what he says and when the source dries up the work withers and crumbles.

It's not what you see that is art art is the gap.

An artist has to take life as he finds it. Life by itself is formless wherever it is. Art must give it form.

Art for art's sake.

The artist does not see things as they are but as he is.

Picasso created blank spaces through which an imagination could fly.

I was always fascinated by graphic art and typography and architecture. And so I was constantly cutting things and making blocks and making buildings out of shoeboxes.

I've always been interested in art, architecture, color.

If you ever have a kid who doesn't know what to do, stick him in art school. It's amazing what evolves.

I was a huge Muppet fan growing up, but that was the extent of my puppet knowledge. I really loved the art form and the whole Henson universe.

Just as there is no substitute for original works of art, there is no substitute for the world of direct sensual experience.

Magic touches people in the way great art does. It lets them see the world with new eyes.

Children depend mightily on animals for comfort, inspiration, imagination, and art. And parents have long recognized this.

Art is about imagination. When you look at a picture from Salvador Dali, that's about imagination. When you look at Picasso, that's about imagination. Doing stuff from your heart.

I understand what it is to go through emotional trauma and retreat and go into the world of your imagination. I understand how art and music can be a place of safety in a world of reinvention.

All art, from the paintings on the walls of cave dwellers to art created today, is autobiographical because it comes from the secret place in the soul where imagination resides.

With out art, without communicating, we wouldn't live beyond 30 because we'd be so sad and depressed.