Clue Quote by Antoni Tapies

“Imagination is tapping into the subconscious in a form of open play. That is why art or music therapy, which encourages a person to…

— Phil Cheney

I take for granted that for the imaginative writer, the exercise of the imagination is part of the basic process of coping with reality,…

— J. G. Ballard

Possessing a healthy imagination is a necessary ingredient for creativity.

— Steve Vai

From a slight, undetermined drawing, where the ideas of the composition and character are just touched upon, the imagination supplies more than the painter…

— Joshua Reynolds

“[Imagination] is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.…

— Ernest Hemingway

The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and…

— Marcel Duchamp

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He…

— John W. Gardner

In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious, and draws…

— E. M. Forster

Authors do not supply imaginations, they expect their readers to have their own, and to use it

— Nella Larsen

Imagination helps bring out the realism of every detail and only sees the beauties of the work.

— Honore de Balzac

“Valuable elements may be easier to experience in art and in anticipation than in reality. The anticipatory and artistic imaginations omit and compress, they…

— Alain de Botton

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…

— Eugene H. Peterson