Lewis Carroll Quotes

A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.

I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings.

Artists can have greater access to reality; they can see patterns and details and connections that other people, distracted by the blur of life, might miss. Just sharing that truth can be a very powerful thing.

To me, writing is about how we see. The writers I want to read teach me how to see-see the world differently. In my writing there is no separation between how I observe the world and how I write the world. We write through our eyes. We write through our body. We write out of what we know.

To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It's just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life.

Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.

I try to find the picture, not create it.

There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white.

Art is not in some far-off place. A work of art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability.

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

The secret of it is to read what you've got in front of you. Don't, if you suspect that something has a double meaning, don't pause. Don't put on a leery vocal expression if you know what I mean on radio. Don't sort of do anything other than read it.

You've got to find some way of saying it without saying it.

Lyrics need to be good, but they don't need to be obvious right away.

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

I enjoy looking beyond the obvious and look at the stories happening all around me - you kind of formulate things in your mind and get excited about them.

It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.

I've always been someone who really watches other people, human behavior. To watch it and be able to express it through your version has always been really exciting to me.

I think that words are often extraneous to what I do.

Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

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.

Intrigue is so much more effective. I don't like to be over-prescriptive of an audience. The same with a book or with art - people shouldn't read too much before they explore.

I personally feel like certain topics and certain issues aren't really being conveyed the right way in music nowadays. It's all very direct and to the point without leaving anything to the imagination.

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.

Art is embedded in nature and they who can extract it, have it.