Quotes About Imagination

I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't remember what I did before that. Just loafed, I suppose.

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.

Now here come your friends racing onto the scene! They're ready for football in their jerseys and jeans! So you quickly choose sides and mark off the goals, using jackets and earmuffs and telephone poles. Then with one mighty kick the game starts to click. And oh, what a game! So many trick plays! You sneak to the mailbox, then streak the wrong way! But then a long pass over driveway and grass is caught near the earmuffs-- a touchdown at last! And everyone sighs as you end in a tie.

The only real death that ever occurs is when a dream we cherish dies

When we play an unaccompanied Bach suite we may compare ourselves to an actor in Shakespeare's day, creating scenery which did not exist at all, through the power of declamation and suggestion. So in Bach. There is but one voice -- and many voices have to be suggested.

A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who does not play has lost forever the child who lived in him.

If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.

The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

To me there is no past or future in art. If a work cannot always live in the present, it must not be considered art at all.

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.

Art is a lie that tells the truth.

Art washes away from the soul, the dust of everyday living.

Art washes away the dust of everyday life.

Give me a museum, and I'll fill it.

God is really only another artist, he made the elephat, giraffe and cat. He has no real style but keeps trying new ideas.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape...

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

We all know that art is not the truth, art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

Everything you can imagine is real.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.