Joseph Conrad Quotes

The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Imagination decides everything.

I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.

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

Imagination is the air of mind.

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

Usually I say I have no imagination.

Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

Only in your imagination can you revise.

I think when you're being creative, you still attach it to reality somehow.

It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.

There's a fine line between imagination and reality. An inventor dreams something up, and pretty soon, it's there on the table before him. A science-fiction writer envisions another world, and then some space probe finds it. If you believe in something strongly enough, I think you can make it happen.

Every single thing you see on-screen came out of somebody's creativity. It doesn't exist. Nature didn't deliver it to us. Everything had to be dreamed.

Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration. The fresh piece of paper on the drawing board is as blank as the newly stretched piece of canvas.

Of course creativity is a mystery. We don't know what drives it or what constitutes it. It's one of those things, like genius, you know it when you see it but it's impossible to define.

I try to find the picture, not create it.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

With sculpting, nothing is cloudy or mystical. It's just about this object, and if you're trying to depict reality, and you do it well, then the outcome is the truth.

Sometimes my art is just an illusion - or is it?

I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses.

Art is more engaging that propaganda.

To them though, not to us, we were just a catalyst for their imagination.

Everything you can imagine is real.

I mean, I don't know anything else that I would try to do, but it's a very frustrating thing to do, because you are trying to take what's a fantasy in your head and make it live through the minds of 200 people.