A picture is first of all a product of the artist's…

A painting is above all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy. If, at a later stage, he wants…

— Edgar Degas

A picture is first of all a product of the imagination of the artist; it must never be a copy.

— Edgar Degas

Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.

— Evelyn Waugh

An artist’s imagination is his greatest tool

— Michael Jackson

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

— Solomon R. Guggenheim

“It always surprises me when people assume that something an artist has created is based on a true experience or reflects his or her…

— Michael Jackson

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…

— Bill Vaughan

A director is a man, therefore he has ideas; he is also an artist, therefore he has imagination. Whether they are good or bad,…

— Michelangelo Antonioni

An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.

— Robert Henri

“As an artist, her imagination isn't fettered by the constraints of reality.”

— Sarah Cross

The idea is not to copy nature, but to give a feeling of nature.

— Piet Oudolf

I remember being a kid and seeing the 'National Inquirer' at the grocery store checkout line. When somebody actually picked up a copy, it…

— Rashida Jones

In that part of the book of my memory before the which is little that can be read, there is a rubric, saying, Incipit…

— Dante Alighieri

My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies.

— Randy Bachman

every being is unique.god neva creates carbon copies,he alys creates originals.he is truly a creator.he neva repeats.but man goes on living in imitation.we are…

— Anonymous