Ifs Quote by Thomas Cole

If life is a blank canvas and all people are artists, the big challenge we all face may be expressed this way: Will we…

— Mardy Grothe

Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope forother people is that…

— William S. Burroughs

Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success…

— Rita Dove

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

— Richard Prince

An artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn't exist, for the artist doesn't live in a vacuum. Some sort…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Imagination is best art ever.

— JeMaSae

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

No one can ever create art, even on a piece of paper, as they have envisioned it in their mind.

— S. S. Rajamouli

The creative process obtains in all creative acts. So if I'm painting suddenly I'll see something that I didn't see before.

— Annie Dillard

The literary artist will ... portray what he knows, and little else. Imagination is built upon knowledge, and his dreams will rest upon his…

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind.

— Anonymous