Quotes About Imagination

In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture.

Nature is only another chimera.

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.

I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.

If you want to say how can we step into childhood and make it better for them, I would start at the activity level. I'd like to say let your kids go out and play.

Paul Valery speaks of the 'une ligne donnee' of a poem. One line is given to the poet by God or by nature, the rest he has to discover for himself.

We are not to tell nature what she's gotta be... She's always got better imagination than we have.

I never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint.

But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.

The creative scientist studies nature with the rapt gaze of the lover, and is guided as often by aesthetics as by rational considerations in guessing how nature works.

Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual nature.

Is the painter a plagiarist because he sets his palette to nature?

How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.

We live in a web of ideas, a fabric of our own making.

Every single thing you see on-screen came out of somebody's creativity. It doesn't exist. Nature didn't deliver it to us. Everything had to be dreamed.

The eye transmits its own image through the air to all the objects which face it, and also receives them on its own surface, whence the "sensus communis" takes them and considers them.

The art of seeing nature, or, in other words, the art of using models, is in reality the great object, the point to which all our studies are directed.

The imagination is man's power over nature.

No matter how happy anyone is with their choices, I believe it's human nature to wonder about the path not taken.

All our thinking is of this nature, a free play with concepts.

Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

It seems to me that when I see nature I see it ready-made, completely written - but then, try to do it!

Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appear'd, And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard: To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give a Milton birth, ask'd ages more.