Louis Dudek Quotes

As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.

Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain.

Writing is one way to achieve enchantment.

The artists we love, they put their fingerprint on your imagination, and on your heart and your soul.

I like to go to art museums and name the untitled paintings... Boy With Pail... Kitten On Fire.

Art is a concrete and personal and rather childish thing after all - no matter what people do to graft it into science and make it sociological and psychological; it is no good at all unless it is let alone to be itself - a game of make-believe, or re-production, very exciting and delightful to people who have an ear for it or an eye for it.

In art we are once again able to do all the things we have forgotten; we are able to walk on water; we speak to the angels who call us; we move, unfettered, among the stars.

You are the song of every bird, you are the poet's every word, every artist's picture, every writer's play.

Art does not tolerate reason.

I can't think of anything more rewarding than being able to express yourself to others through painting. Exercising the imagination, experimenting with talents, being creative; these things, to me, are truly the windows to your soul.

Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.

I get to draw what I like to draw, basically people hangin' around, and write very humanistic kinds of situations and characters. But I do also like to draw adventure stories - more in terms of drawing them than writing them - and letting my imagination go wild.

Drawing is exercise for a restless imagination.

In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are capable of it.

Every human being is an artist

Art is ruled uniquely by the imagination.

I do feel like no matter what you're doing, whether it's music or writing a play or a poem or drawing a picture or painting something, that you're speaking to what is it you want to express, what is it you want to see.

We have art so that we shall not die of reality.

Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it only as it subserves these ends.

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense (Spence, Anecdotes

Poetry is the one thing that isn't contaminated, the one thing that isn't part of the game.

The roots of art and play lie very close together.

I personally just love movies about the creative process.