Quotes About Art

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 sun

The imagination is a palette of bright colors. You can use it to touch up memories — or you can use it to paint dreams.

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.

What year is it in your imagination?

Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.

I understand abstract art as an attempt to feed imagination with a world built through the basic sensations of the eyes.

A photographer without imagination is not a good photographer.

Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.

If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob, what need do you have for a 'movie version' of a novel?

All paintings start with concept, which is another word for image or imagination. The mistake is to isolate the concept as if the idea did not need to be given permanent form.

A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.

Try drawing or painting a scene you're working on. Often this will help free up you imagination.

Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.

I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination

The story must spring from an impression or perception pressing enough to have made the writer write. It should magnetize the imagination and give pleasure.

Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.

There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste. [Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.]

The past is not the present: pretending it is corrupts art and thus both rots the mind and shrivels the imagination and conscience.

The only realism in art is of the imagination.

My dear, beautiful and imaginative things can be destroyed. Beauty and imagination cannot.

Music gives wings to the mind and flight to the imagination.

Art degraded, Imagination denied.