Best artist & imagination Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I'm speaking of the pursuit of excellence in all things. All things! Presence of mind and devotion to craft. A great artist has these. A great chef. A great master of tea. There's powerful kung fu in a well-built house or an eloquent letter, but the limit of your imagination is bones breaking and bullets flying.”

“The fact that all of us die anyway (the rumor turns out to be true) is a mere detail in the celestial glow of imagination. The artist's eyes destroy death.”

Facts Eye Artist Dies Turns Imagination Mere Details Being True Rumor Celestial

Book:Bohemia: Digging the Roots of Cool

Source: Bohemia: Digging the Roots of Cool

“Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine.”

Two Artist Imagination Virtue Effects Generosity Routine

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to represent positive truth, but the idealized image of a truth”

Real Artist Imagination Fiction Written Painting Sculpture Truthfulness

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.”

Use Artist Imagination

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“The genius is not in how much Stanley Kubrick does in “2001: A Space Odyssey,'' but in how little. This is the work of an artist so sublimely confident that he doesn't include a single shot simply to keep our attention. He reduces each scene to its essence, and leaves it on screen long enough for us to contemplate it, to inhabit it in our imaginations. Alone among science-fiction movies, “2001'' is not concerned with thrilling us, but with inspiring our awe.”

Source: 33 Movies to Restore Your Faith in Humanity: Ebert's Essentials

“The artist's imagination may wander far from nature. But as long as it is a living, moving power in his brain, isn't it just as real as any other natural phenomenon? The artist justifies his existence only when he can transform his imagination into truth.”

May Long Real Moving Artist Imagination Natural Existence Brain Wander Justify Phenomenon Natural Phenomena

Author:Bill Vaughan

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

Has Beens Artist Imagination

Author:Solomon R. Guggenheim

“We do live, all of us, on many different levels, and for most artists the world of imagination is more real than the world of the kitchen sink.”

World Different Real Artist Imagination Levels Kitchen Different Levels Kitchen Sinks

Book:A Circle of Quiet

Source: A Circle of Quiet

“The function of the artist is to organize the facets of life according to his imagination.”

Life Artist Imagination Function Organize Facets

Book:The Art of Romare Bearden

Source: The Art of Romare Bearden

“Artists are... stubborn egomaniacs who are mysteriously - and sometimes correctly - certain that the world needs to know all about the figments of their imaginations and who gear their lives to getting those figments into circulation.”

Knows World Needs Sometimes Artist Certain Imagination Ego Stubborn Gears Circulation Figments Egomaniacs

Author:Jon Pareles

“The artivist (artist +activist) uses her artistic talents to fight and struggle against injustice and oppression – by any medium necessary. The artivist merges commitment to freedom and justice with the pen, the lens, the brush, the voice, the body, and the imagination. The artivist knows that to make an observation is to have an obligation.”

“Every artist knows that there is no such thing as "freedom" in art. The first thing an artist does when he begins a new work is to lay down the barriers and limitations; he decides upon a certain composition, a certain key, a certain relation of creatures or objects to each other. He is never free, and the more splendid his imagination, the more intense his feeling, the farther he goes from general truth and general emotion.”

Source: Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art

“I think part of being an artist is having the ability to define your own responsibilities. I certainly wouldn't prescribe any. As far as I'm concerned, my biggest responsibility is to my own imagination. We're all conduits. Art preceded me, and it'll be here long after I'm gone.”

Thinking Long Art Artist Imagination My Own Ability Responsibility Gone Concerned Being An Artist

Author:Pierre Coupey

“Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the artist; since what happened in them was beyond the imagination, it was therefore also beyond art and all those human values on which art is traditionally based.”

Humans Art Artist Values Imagination Impossible Happened Subjects Art Is Police Terror Despite Concentration Camps Human Values Concentration Camp

Book:The Savage God: A Study of Suicide

Source: The Savage God: A Study of Suicide

“Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.”

Inspiration Science Artist Imagination Design Models Slavery Slave Enthusiasm Conformity My Imagination Be A Slave Non Conformity Quench

Book:The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh

Source: The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh

“Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.”

Artist Imagination Fantasy Taste Enormous Composition Good Taste Scientific Knowledge

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“Peter Cooper looks at the world with an artist's eye and a human heart and soul. His songs are the work of an original, creative imagination, alive with humor and heartbreak and irony and intelligence, with truth and beauty in the details. Deep stuff. And they get better every time you listen to them.”

“We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous, lucid and muddied, eddying, gleaming, still. Lovers, farmers, and artists have one thing in common, at least - a fear of 'dry spells,' dormant periods in which we do no blooming, internal droughts only the waters of imagination and psychic release can civilize.”

Stills Artist Water Imagination Common One Thing Dangerous Lovers Periods Rivers Release Dry Internals Spells Farmers Psychics Careless Drought Dormant Blooming

Book:The solace of open spaces

Source: The solace of open spaces

“To cook, and to do it well, every talent must be used; the strength of a prize-fighter, the imagination of a poet, the brain of an empire builder, the patience of Job, the eye and the touch of an artist, and, to turn your mistakes into edible assets, the cleverness of a politician.”

Wells Eye Jobs Used Artist Turns Imagination Mistake Brain Talent Poet Politician Cooking Fighter Cooks Empires Prize Assets Cleverness Builder

Author:Anne Ellis

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