Gustave Moreau Quotes

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

I like ideas. I find them more exciting than human behavior for the most part.

If you cut a painter's hands off, he'd still feel the urge to pick up a brush.

Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.

Human beings are creators, flinging powerful images into the minds of their fellow men. And all of these images are built of tiny particles of thought.

What I do enjoy is the creative process.

I'm always looking for the potential mystery in everything; I can't imagine writing about anything else.

If I have a talent, it lies in the creative process.

A great artist transforms our world, removes scales from our eyes, plugs from our ears, gloves from our fingertips, teaches us to perceive reality differently.

An artist is always thinking of something else. My father was like that. He had this feeling of abstraction, and I do, too.

When I get an artistic itch, I have to scratch it.

Even though people think I am more of a conceptual artist, I am actually very intuitive. For me, it is still a matter of allowing things to naturally rise to the top of my mental pile, and then I make them.

Reality has always attracted me like a magnet; it tortured and hypnotized me. I wanted to capture it on paper.

I am constantly thinking of different ideas and formats for TV shows. I am in a place where anything is possible if you want to do it.

This creating? It's my passion.

Our wishes are our most reliable mirror, and the black-and-white movies I'm most drawn to are about artists who suffer because art is a noble thing; suffering is such a small price to pay for the imagination.

When you are a designer, what's important is to be aware of things. Everything should lead to an idea, a line to follow, a movement.

We draw inspiration directly and indirectly from all sorts of things, like movies, documentaries, TV dramas, novels, non-fiction books, animation, science and nature shows, and our own life experiences.

Yes, I'm a fan, and 'The Lost City of Z' has been my inspiration. Percy Fawcett was one of my heroes, and I loved the book and the film. I was lost in the same area that Fawcett had explored, and I can identify with his sense of passion and obsession, and I definitely see the romance in searching for lost treasure.

Certain things come to me; I just become intrigued by them and want to live inside them.

I've always been interested in visualizing something, whether it's a memory or an idea you want to be true. I am a big believer in that. I'm constantly thinking of that. If I can't picture something, then it doesn't make sense to me.

Imagination is a funny thing - we sometimes need to see something before we can truly picture it.

I like to create whatever that pops up in my head, bring whatever idea to life.

With imagination, you can put something where nothing was.

Imagination is a form of seeing