Quotes About Imagination

All great art ... creates in the beholder not self-satisfacti on but wonder and awe. Its great liberation is to lift us out of ourselves.

Stoichkov is a great person and an exceptional player... Only if we had him at Napoli... can you imagine the Stoichkov-Maradona attacking duo?

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.

I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at is a great opportunity for ideas.

Even in China. Children there, next to the Great Wall, who had never seen Mickey Mouse responded. So the studio did have that skill to communicate with images.

One does not set out with the idea that I've just had a great idea and now I'm going to go and carry it out. Almost all art that's made like that doesn't go anywhere.

The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself.

Acting can be a great job, but you do have to make up things to do when you're not working.

But none of that kept me from picturing what a tsunami might look like if it did rise up and roar toward my little boat like some watery blue version of the Great Wall of China.

Sorrow is the great idealizer.

Books make great gifts because... [they don't] come in any particular size, so you don't have to be embarrassed if you bought somebody the wrong size.

Painting, which is essentially a rhythmic harmony of coloured spaces. Realism was the death of art. Great art should come from the harmony of two lines.

There are many great minds on earth and not all are human.

Great art must be a living thing, or it is not art at all.

Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator.

The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.

Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.

I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.

Remembering is a great invention of the mind.

Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human.

You don't have to live in a garage to write great poetry.

I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to burst.

Creative artists have great passion.