Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.

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

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.

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.

Sometimes my art is just an illusion - or is it?

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

When I first made a grid, I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees, and then a grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, 'This is my vision.'

From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

An artist looks at a juice bottle, an egg carton, or a newspaper and sees something valuable in them.

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.

Some directors are like poets.

An artist sees that which does not yet exist. He or she imagines a future others cannot perceive. The artist - and the writer - reshapes reality so that it becomes even more vivid and lasting.

It's an artist's job to always have their antennas up.

Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight; and converts every object into a little universe in itself. Art may be said to draw aside the veil from nature. To those who are perfectly unskilled in the practice, unimbued with the principles of art, most objects present only a confused mass.

The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.