Tom Robbins Quotes

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

I'm interested in creating new work.

The artist in me welcomes another opportunity to be creative.

Like the adolescent, the artist is a dreamer and a revolutionary; like the adolescent, he often finds his accomplishment inadequate to his imaginings. But his dream, setting him apart, helps him to escape the burden of the real.

Most people are afraid to trust their imaginations and the artist is not.

I’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries.

An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.

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.

You don't base records on success; you base it on creativity.

God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from.

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

I want to create. I think that's the one word I can grow on.

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

If the arts are held up solely as a means of social insight, fantasy is denied the chance to be commonplace and reality the chance to be exotic.

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

Because of the many dimensions of forms of though which you can also put into physical form, you have the possibility to create much which we cannot fashion in the same manner.

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make our photographs equal to what we see out there, but no better.

I believe in creative work.

I just want to be able to be creative.

Using my imagination and creativity is exciting to me.

Your creativity before it gets formed into words and songs is the actual substance. No one else can see it, right? Unless you give it the shape of a song or a painting or whatever.