Quotes About Imagination

All I ask in painting is a way of escaping from life.

Acho que isto se deve ao fato de que, antes de começar a pintar, desenhei e estudei perspectiva o tempo necessário para poder compor um assunto que eu visse.

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

Todas essas coisas, família, pátria, talvez sejam mais encantadoras na imaginação de pessoas como nós, que passamos muito bem sem pátria e sem família, do que em qualquer realidade.

Dichiaro solennemente di non saperne nulla, ma dico che la vista delle stelle, mi fa sognare tanto semplicemente quanto quei punti neri che nelle carte geografiche rappresentano città e villaggi. E mi dico: perché i punti luminosi del firmamento dovrebbero esserci meno accessibili che i punti neri della carta di Francia?

In short it is not as good as your painting yet; never mind, it will come; you must certainly continue your sonnets. There are so many people, especially among our comrades, who imagine that words are nothing - on the contrary, isn't it true that saying a thing well is as interesting and as difficult as painting it? There is the art of lanes and colours, but the art of words is there nonetheless, and will remain.

Now and then when I am writing, I automatically do a small drawing, such as I sent you lately. I did one this morning representing Elijah in the desert under an orange sky, with some hawthorns in the foreground. It is nothing special, but I see it all so clearly before me, and I think that at such moments I could speak about it enthusiastically - may it be given me to do so later on.

I should very much like to see Millet reproductions in the schools. I think there are children who would become painters if only they saw good things.

Art is something which, though produced by human hands, is not wrought by hands alone, but wells up from a deeper source, from man's soul"_Page.268

If I can manage to paint the coloring of my own head, which is not to be done without some difficulty, I shall likewise be able to paint the heads of other good souls

I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful.

At present I absolutely want to paint a starry sky. It often seems to me that night is still more richly coloured than the day; having hues of the most intense violets, blues and greens. If only you pay attention to it you will see that certain stars are lemon-yellow, others pink or a green, blue and forget-me-not brilliance. And without my expatiating on this theme it is obvious that putting little white dots on the blue-black is not enough to paint a starry sky.

The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.

As you say, I can feel it and I can smell it, but for me it's still a black rose.

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organisations, places and events are either the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

What if Amyntas is dark? Violets are dark, too, and hyacinths.

Do not commit your poems to pages alone, sing them I pray you.

Let your mind alone, and see what happens.

There's a million stories glistening in her eyes if you just have time to look.

The books from which [children] learn must reflect movement and change and all of the infinite possibilities of minds at liberty.