Art Quote by Rollo May

The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art thaws even the frozen, darkened soul, opening it to lofty spiritual experience.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or…

— Thomas Cole

The arts are not frosting but baking soda.

— Anonymous

Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.

— George Henry Lewes

We must not imitate the externals of nature with so much fidelity that the picture fails to evoke that wonderful teasing recurrence of emotion…

— John F. Carlson

The artwork had very little to do with the thought process, and the writing too, for that matter. What happens, happens, and it happens…

— Jules Feiffer

I think that art has the ability to capture people's imaginations and make them think that more is possible.

— Shepard Fairey

Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.

— Tom Stoppard

We do not make art. We have unnamable motors and dangerous impulses that occupy our thoughts.

— Richard Prince

Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.

— Cyril Connolly

Like wax that melts & drips down a candle, Art is the melting pot of the human mind.

— Stephanie Bombita Green