Bell Hooks Quotes

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

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

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.

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

Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.

The purpose of concept art as a genre is to unbrainwash our mathematical and logical faculties.

[Great artists] do not copy what they see, but what they desire.

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.

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.

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.

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

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

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Made with Pencils is grounded in the creativity of a few, propelled by the financial support of many, and most importantly, it's empowering generations to come. A simple idea, a heartfelt desire, and a world of possibility. A pencil, a promise, and a dream.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

Everything is raw material to me. Land is raw material... I take one form and transform it into other forms.

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.