What Inspirational Sharings!

We came across these quotes from several different artists and know that you will all love them…..so thought provoking!

It is not enough to know your craft — you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.
— Edouard Manet

Imagination abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters; united with her, she is the mother of the arts and source of their wonders.
— Francisco Goya

A person without imagination is like a teabag without hot water.
— Alan Fletcher, acclaimed British graphic designer

I like an empty wall because I can imagine what I like on it.
— Georgia O’Keeffe

The idea or the faculty of imagination serves as both rudder and bridle to the senses, inasmuch as the thing imagined moves the sense.
— Leonardo da Vinci

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
― William Blake

I do not paint by copying nature… Everything I do springs from my wild imagination.
— Paul Gauguin

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination, do not become the slave of your model.
— Vincent van Gogh

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
— Edward Hopper

I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.
— Grandma Moses, folk artist

I have always said that you do not see a thing until you look away from it. In other words, an object or a fact in nature has not become itself until it has been projected in the realm of the imagination.
— Marsden Hartley, modernist painter

Art lives through the imaginations of the people who are seeing it. Without that contact, there is no art.
— Keith Haring

To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter’s imagination.
— Frank Auerbach, German-British painter

And with that, go forth and imagine!