Art Quote by William S. Burroughs

The highest exercise of imagination is not to devise what has no existence, but rather to perceive what really exists, though unseen by the…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The artist tries to see what there is to be interested in...He has not created something,he has seen something.

— T. E. Hulme

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

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.

— Paul Cezanne

Seeing artistically does not happen automatically. We must constantly develop our powers of observation.

— Eugene Delacroix

“Creativity is the art of producing new and abstractness of things that is not seen; but, at the end of the day it produces…

— Temitope Owosela

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.

— Man Ray

The observation of nature is part of an artist's life.

— Henry Moore

Nothing else exists when art does.

— Michael Patrick King

A creative person has to believe in the unseen and the untouched.

— Paul Haggis

All creative art is magic , is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising, for the edification of mankind ,…

— Joseph Conrad

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