Quotes About Imagination

I never get tired of the blue sky.

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.

Do not quench your inspiration and your inmagination do not become the slave of your model.

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me want to dream.

I think that I still have it in my heart someday to paint a bookshop with the front yellow and pink in the evening...like a light in the midst of the darkness.

We are surrounded by poetry on all sides...

How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world

to look at the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots of a map representing towns and villages. Why, I ask myself, should the shining dots of the sky not be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France?

Drawing is the root of everything!

My great longing is to learn to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes of reality, so that they may become, yes, untruth if you like - but more true than the literal truth.

You can feel the stars and the infinity of the sky. Since life, in spite of everything, is like a fairytale.

I couldn't care less what the colours are in reality.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of stars makes me dream

But when shallI ever get round to doing the starry sky, that picture which is always on my mind?

You don't know how paralyzing that is, that stare of a blank canvas, which says to the painter, 'You can't do a thing'.

Painters understand nature & love her & teach us to see.

Mi occorre anche una notte stellata con dei cipressi

Güç iÅŸe giriÅŸmek iyi geliyor bana. Ama gene de - aç?kça söyleyeyim mi? - korkunç bir din ihtiyac? duyuyorum - onun için de geceleri sokaÄŸa ç?k?p y?ld?zlar? boyamaya gidiyorum, hep de böyle bir resim tasarl?yorum kafamda bir grup canl? arkadaÅŸ figürüyle…

What else can one do, when we think of all the things we do not know the reason for, than go look at a field of wheat? The history of those plants is like our own; for aren't we, who live on bread, to a considerable extent like wheat, at least aren't we forced to submit to growing like a plant without the power to move, by which I mean in what way our imagination impels us, and to being reaped when we are ripe, like the same wheat?