Imagination Quote by James Thomson

“Don't paint from nature too much. Art is an abstraction. Derive this abstraction from nature while dreaming before it, and think more of the…

— Paul Gauguin

If one could only reproduce nature, and always with less beauty than the original, why paint at all?

— Georgia O'Keeffe

To paint nature you must be in it a long time.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Painting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world.. ..it must fertilize the imagination.

— Joan Miro

To paint from nature is to realize one's sensations, not to copy what is before one.

— J. E. H. MacDonald

In fact, whatever exists in the universe, in essence, in appearance, in the imagination, the painter has first in his mind and then in…

— Leonardo da Vinci

I believe that one should not think too much about nature when painting, at least not during the painting's conception. The colour sketch should…

— Paula Modersohn-Becker

Painting, like music, has nothing to do with the reproduction of nature, nor interpretation of intellectual meanings. Whoever is able to feel the beauty…

— Hilla von Rebay

Nature engenders the science of painting

— Robert Delaunay

People really paint women one-dimensionally.

— Rachel Sennott

One paints from nature not in order to copy, but to express feelings of grandeur.

— Georges Vantongerloo

Anybody who perceives colors can become a painter. It's simply a question of whether or not one has felt anything and whether one has…

— Edvard Munch