David Ebershoff Quotes

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

A great artist transforms our world, removes scales from our eyes, plugs from our ears, gloves from our fingertips, teaches us to perceive reality differently.

You can't buy vision, and you can't buy aesthetic.

This, I thought, is how great visionaries and poets see everything- as if for the first time. Each morning they see a new world before their eyes; they do not really see it, they create it.

I think artists can go to a level of vision that can often save us from a situation which seems to have no solution whatsoever.

Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.

Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration. The fresh piece of paper on the drawing board is as blank as the newly stretched piece of canvas.

It is the function of creative man to perceive and to connect the seemingly unconnected.

Insight is the first condition of Art.

What drives the creative person is that we see it all.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.

If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make our photographs equal to what we see out there, but no better.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

The visionary imagination is the source of art and religion.

It's so difficult to actually come up with ideas that you really fall in love with, you know? That's the most difficult thing about filmmaking - and that's my main challenge in life.

Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.

As an aspiring artist, you should strive for originality of vision. Have something to say and a fresh way of saying it. No story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it’s not the work of the imagination.

The richest source of creation is feeling, followed by a vision of its meaning.

This is the highest miracle of genius, that things which are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another.

Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.

Jean Renoir once suggested that most true creators have only one idea and spend their lives reworking it, but then very rapidly he added that most people don't have any ideas at all, so one idea is pretty amazing.