Art Quote by Billy Corgan

If you're using your imagination, you tend to look into the past for ideas.

— Paul McCartney

It is striking how our language reveals the visual nature of our thoughts about the future state of affairs. When we invent the future,…

— James M. Kouzes

When one analyzes the pre-conscious step to concepts, one always finds ideas which consist of 'symbolic images.' The first step to thinking is a…

— Wolfgang Pauli

The past slips from our grasp. It leaves us only scattered things. The bond that united them eludes us. Our imagination usually fills in…

— Igor Stravinsky

Imagination judges the future by the past, but concerns itself with the future more than with the past.

— Napoleon Hill

I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you're never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia…

— Stephen Fry

As an artist, where do you conjure these concepts? They come through you instead of through cognitive thought.

— Nick Littlemore

We're living history all the time, in the papers, in the news, you think about stuff and it goes into your brain and you…

— Michael C. McMillen

I've always been interested in visualizing something, whether it's a memory or an idea you want to be true. I am a big believer…

— Charlie McDowell

I'm not the kind of artist who has an idea and then carries it out; it's more like I find what the idea was…

— Cecily Brown

The more you see, especially being young, the more you see the past, the more you can draw upon that and the more you…

— Martin Scorsese

I'm interested in that way we perceive things, and that was part of what I was getting into in painting - the idea of…

— Kurt Wagner