Quotes About Imagination

Color was not given to us in order that we should imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can express our emotions.

All works, no matter what or by whom painted, are nothing but bagatelles and childish trifles... unless they are made and painted from life, and there can be nothing... better than to follow nature.

I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature

Why are we here on earth? To create. It's in our nature.

Sometimes the whole world is mud luscious and puddle wonderful

Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.

The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.

Great men have the nature of a child.

The imagination is one of the forces of nature.

To walk with nature as a poet is the necessary condition of a perfect artist.

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.

The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.

I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.

We have had bird's-eye views seen by mind's eye imperfectly. Now we will have nothing less than the tracings of nature itself, reflected on the plate.

Art is embedded in nature and they who can extract it, have it.

Blue suggests the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract.

It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.

All gardening is landscape painting.

Magic speaks to the child in all of us. No matter how sophisticated we become, there's still a part of us who wants to believe in an alternative reality, where we can defy the laws of nature.

Not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken kinship with nature. Art must accept such gifts, and revaluate the giver.

Art is by nature optimistic. Art is optimistic because it is alive.

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

In visualizing, or making a mental picture you are not endeavoring to change the laws of nature. You are fulfilling them.