Quotes About Imagination

The Louvre is a good book to consult, but it must only be an intermediary. The real and immense study that must be taken up is the manifold picture of nature.

It is possible that a picture will move far away from Nature and yet find its way back to reality. The faculty of memory, experience at a distance produces pictorial associations.

Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I'd say our afternoon just got booked solid!

Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.

A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders.

But where do they find these lines in nature? I can only see luminous or obscure masses, planes that advance or planes that recede, reliefs or background. My eye never catches lines or details.

The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form [and] knowledge, keeps him fresh and from working only by formula, and feeds inspiration.

Nature is my main source of inspiration - I will never stop taking hints from what I call 'the greatest artist'

A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.

Every child needs nature. Not just the ones with parents who appreciate nature. Not only those of a certain economic class or culture or set of abilities. Every child.

The nature of having ideas and creativity is incredibly inspiring.

Is there a more mysterious idea than to imagine how nature is reflected in the eyes of animals?

Art is stronger than Nature

I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.

Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine

The purpose of art is to re-present nature, not represent it.

Speculation, like nature, abhors a vacuum.

When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, the first thing I try to do is to forget that I have ever seen a picture.

If one could only reproduce nature, and always with less beauty than the original, why paint at all?

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature

Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?

Whenever I look at a mountain I always expect it to turn into a volcano.

Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.