Quotes About Imagination

Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the unexpected and, with luck, of the unexpectable.

To be five years old is to be surprised by life. I'm amused by my children's awe at quotidian things - a toy helicopter, a bubble bath, the visible tentacles on a plate of calamari. And I'm envious of their ability to attain something I often can't: a state of transcendence induced by art.

The truth is, the less a subject had to do with the visible world, the more talented I was at solving problems.

A design that I create is like my own extension. It's 'thinking made visible.'

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.

I have a flood of ideas in my mind. I just follow my vision.

Every vision is a joke until the first man accomplishes it; once realized, it becomes commonplace.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

Color is just in a small area of our vision, and the rest we add with the mind.

Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.

When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority.

My vision and my creative ability is just so broad.

I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

A man, to carry on a successful business, must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. A man can cultivate this faculty only by an appreciation of the finer things in life.

Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life? I believe a lot of our lives are spent asleep, and what I've been trying to do is hold on to those moments when a little spark cuts through the fog and nudges you.

It's really amazing to stand in front of a work you haven't seen before and be almost overwhelmed by its beauty and the vision and execution of the artist.

Makeup is an extraordinary tool that allows me to share my inspirations, my fantasies, and my vision with the world.