Richard Eyre Quotes

To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

We have such a great depth of human history in all of the arts, whether it's opera or mathematics or painting or classical music or jazz. There's so many things to study, new books to read, and certainly always ways to transform old ideas and to come up with new ones.

The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.

Mostly, I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.

I think that art has the ability to capture people's imaginations and make them think that more is possible.

The arts stimulate imagination. They provoke thought. And then, having done that, all sorts of other things happen.

As an artist, you find at different times you want to do different things.

That word 'fantasy' - I hardly ever hear it in the world of design. And that's very strange. You should hear it a lot. I think fantasy is a very important value that designers and artists should bring to the world.

I wanna make weird stuff.

As an artist, I want to explore as much as I can.

The beautiful thing about art is that there's always somewhere to go. There's always something new to explore and, as an artist, that's just what I want to do. I wanna keep exploring new things with different directors with different producers and different styles and tones.

I love being with artists because I'm always open to getting into something.

My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.

L'imagination est la reine du vrai, et le possible est une des provinces du vrai. Imagination is the queen of the truth and the possible is one of the provinces of the truth.

The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.

That's the artist's job, really: continually setting yourself free, and giving yourself new options and new ways of thinking about things.

Imagination is the only true thing in the world!

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

The great happiness in life in creativity belongs to amateurs.

Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists.

If there’s a thing, a scene, maybe, an image that you want to see real bad, that you need to see but it doesn’t exist in the world around you, at least not in the form that you envision, then you create it so that you can look at it and have it around, or show it to other people who wouldn’t have imagined it because they perceive reality in a more narrow, predictable way. And that’s it. That’s all an artist does.

To be an artist means not to compute or count.

Various random experiments, cut-ups, fold-ins, juxtapositions, timed writings of other kinds, the "objects assignment" which involves dream, adventure, ancestry. Writing outside, writing on moving vehicles. Looking at paintings in the grand museums of the world in a proscribed way.Little strategies to keep the lalita - play or dance - going. Sometimes it's lonely you know, just you and your own imagination.