Martin Parr Quotes

Imagination is really dependent on memory and observation, these things that we think of as part of nonfiction writing, actually.

Imagination is a form of seeing

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.

I like the idea that people get engaged thinking about design, about creativity. I don't see how it could possibly be bad.

Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.

To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It's just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life.

I love the creative process and being able to build something out of nothing.

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

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.

I love the creative process. That's always been the closest thing to my heart, creating something.

Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

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

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There's no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.

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

I think we want our kids to grow up to be people who can think outside of the box, be creative and innovators, sort of the forward-thinkers of our future. I think a way to inspire that is through art and music.

First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be.

If you're willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you're already ahead of the game.

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

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

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

There's no possibility that foresight work will ruin my creativity. It goes to a different area than the creative wellspring of SF.