Salvador Dali Quotes

I think the artistry is in having an insight into what one sees around them. Generally putting things together in a way no one else has before and finding a way to express that to other people who don't have that insight.

In my writing, I focus lenses. I'm almost always seeing when I am writing.

The fact is that creativity is everywhere. It's just about the way that you look at things.

My work is about seeing - seeing things like they haven't been seen before.

Imagination is a powerful force underlying all knowing

What is originality? To see something that has no name as yet and hence cannot be mentioned although it stares us all in the face. The way men usually are, it takes a name to make something visible for them.

As an illustrator you need to understand the human body - but having looked at and understood nature, you must develop an ability to look away and capture the balance between what you've seen and what you imagine.

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

All the things worth writing about are outside me. I'm a lens, not a source. And even if it's not always a comfortable journey, it's always a stimulating one.

Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you've felt, that you have observed.

I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination.

I would urge everyone to start looking at the world in a different way. Spend some time looking at everyday objects, at their design, their shape, their individual characteristics. Think ahead and imagine their significance.

You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.

I see things with my own eyes, just as if they were the first eyes that ever saw, and then I set about to tell, as best I can, just what I've seen.

I've always had an appetite for creating in some capacity.

I think my life has been transformed by the ability to take things that exist in the world and look at them more closely. I think that's what art does at its best: it allows us to slow down.

My dad was a poet. He saw the world through unique glasses, with simplicity, spirituality, and humor.

It is popular to believe that in order to see clearly one must believe nothing. This may work well enough if you are observing cells under a microscope. It will not work if you are writing fiction. For the fiction writer, to believe nothing is to see nothing.

Imagination is a form of seeing

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.

Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.

Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination.

Everything inspires me; sometimes I think I see things others don’t.

Imagination is a very precise thing, you know - it is not fantasy; the man who invented the wheel while he was observing another man walking - that is imagination!

He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.