Quotes About Imagination

Bees blew like cake-crumbs through the golden air, white butterflies like sugared wafers, and when it wasn't raining a diamond dust took over which veiled and yet magnified all things

Everything you can imagine, nature has already created.

The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science; and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.

The artist, even when he imitates nature, always feels himself to be not a slave but a demigod.

The artist is a kind of a seer and by nature he is optimistic because he believes in the future.

May books and nature be their early joy!

It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.

White does not exist in nature.

Art is nature as seen through a temperament.

I always entreat the good Lord to give me my childhood back, that is to say, to grant that I may see nature and render it like a child, without prejudice.

I never make studies from nature. They would get in the way. I make use of my mind.

Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint.

Go and see what others have produced, but never copy anything except nature. You would be trying to enter into a temperament that is not yours and nothing that you would do would have any character.

All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!

Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it.

The realities of nature surpass our most ambitious dreams.

Beauty lies in nature and reveals, once the artist has perceived it, its own expressive power.

To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature.

Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor ; who lives to fancy, never can be rich.

Our need to reimagine our world through the vibratory larynx, that's what matters. Re-awaken the world to itself. Through ideas, pictures, sounds. Hold the mirror up to "nature."

The observation of nature is part of an artist's life.

Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius develops itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the most dependent on the opinions of others!

For man is by nature an artist.

We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.