Johnny Flynn Quotes

The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who forces us to see the world afresh; and the revered sage who shows us depths of insight attainable only through a lifetime of hard-won experience.

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

So, okay, I'm not a genius. Vincent Van Gogh and Albert Einstein were geniuses.

Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

The most pleasurable thing in the world, for me, is to see something and then translate how I see it.

Artistic vision is having the clarity to fall in love with what you see.

There is creation in the eye.

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

The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.

(Art is) the residue of vision.

Every form of art is another way of seeing the world. Another perspective, another window. And science - that's the most spectacular window of all. You can see the entire universe from there.

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.

One of the things that fascinates me most is when people are so charmed by the universe that it becomes part of their artistic output.

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

A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.

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

Artwork is not like a commercial business; there is no such thing as a schedule for art. You can't hurry art.

My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

Imagination is the air of mind.

The only thing an artist has to remember is to never lose faith in his vision.

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

Imagination decides everything.