Quotes About Art

Art is the colors and textures of your imagination.

Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art.

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

This world of the imagination is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense.

To get such beauty from something that has been produced from the artist's own imagination appealed to me enormously.

What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.

Camus says in 'The Stranger' that reason is the enemy of imagination. Sometimes you have to put reason aside and make something beautiful.

I like to see films that come out with lower budgets because you're forced into using your imagination. You don't have everything at your fingertips. You have to create it from scratch.

What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement.

For me, it's important to experience aesthetic shock, which sets in motion our imagination, our emotions, our feelings, and our thoughts. That's the purpose of a painting and of art in general.

It's essential for us to develop an imagination that is participatory. Art is the primary way in which this happens. It's the primary way in which we become what we see or hear.

If you get an image try to destroy it.

Art is the imagination at play in the field of time. Let yourself play.

Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

The essence of art is to recapturel the fantasy and the imagination of a child again, but without the innocence of a child.

Literature speaks the language of the imagination, and the study of literature is supposed to train and improve the imagination.

Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.

For me, drawing is a way of navigating the imagination and it remains the fundamental vehicle of my practice. Drawing allows me to be at my most inventive.

And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.

All of Sicily is a dimension of the imagination.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

If you're going to perform inception, you need imagination. You need the simplest version of the idea-the one that will grow naturally in the subject's mind. Subtle art.

The picture is in your head, in your imagination, everything.