Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

I think it reflects well on the state of animation that people are knowledgeable about it and love the fantasy and imagination that goes into it.

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

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

My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.

The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.

For any artistic person who creates imaginary people, the art is like inhabiting the life and mind of a seven-year-old child with imaginary friends and imaginary events and imaginary grace and imaginary tragedy. Within that alternate universe, the characters do have quite a bit of free will. I know it's happening in my mind and my mind alone, but they seem to have their own ability to shape their destinies. So I'm not shooting for anything. If the characters are vulnerable it's simply because they're very human.

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.

My recent drawings that personal ones aren't fashion-related. I sometimes sit and draw people on the bus, or some fantasy hybrid animal. You know, wherever the hand will lead.

At the center of everything we call 'the arts,' and children call 'play,' is something which seems somehow alive.

I think it was Henry Moore who was asked where he got his ideas for his sculptures, and he said something like, "I continue to do as an adult the things I did as a child." I think that's what art is about.

The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.

Do not copy nature. Art is an abstraction. Rather, bring your art forth by dreaming in front of her and think more of creation.

Music, art, landscape - these are all things I draw inspiration from.

You know a trillion times more about art than me. But I’ve learned that it isn’t necessary to know all that much. You just make what you wanna see, right? It’s a game, right? It’s like being paid for dreaming.

Born of the sensibility, art sows and creates life in its turn.

Art as a fantasy has been one of my earliest experiences. I suppose a lot of my childhood was a fantasy that involved getting away from things I didn't like. Fortunately it had some relationship to reality so that later I was able to, to some extent, act as I imagined I might.

The mind itself is an art object ... The mind is a blue guitar on which we improvise the song of the world.

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

That's the most important thing in art: to be aware, pay attention, be inspired - but it should come ultimately from you.

With writing music and writing songs and recording music and coming up with stuff, you need to kind of reengage that kind of inner child to come up with interesting perceptions.

It's wonderful that nothing you write is ever going to be as beautiful as what's in your head, because that gap is where the art can enter and begin to stretch its limbs.

Art is a game. Too bad for him who makes a duty of it.

A piece of writing is like a piece of magic. You create something out of nothing.