Ren Ng Quotes

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

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

Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.

When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.

I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.

Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.

Everybody has their thing they like or don't like to see. It's all in your head. That's why people take their own pictures, because it's difficult for someone else to capture what you seek.

I think, as human beings, we all have a fundamental mode, a basic way of relating to the rest of reality, and for me, it's always instinctively been about sound making and trying to extract information, grammar, meaning from sound making. That's been my way of navigating reality that's very personal; a painter might say they make marks or look.

There are so many avenues to explore and stories to tell. It's just about finding new ways of telling them.

Where the eye is focused, there the imagination finds its raw material. The right focus must be won at immense cost and discipline. Train the eye to see the good, and the imagination will follow suit.

You ride astride the imaginary in order to hunt down the real.

Consciousness is always open to many possibilities because it involves play. It is always an adventure.

I have always liked drawing, when you draw you see things more intensely.

Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith.

To see life. To see the world. To watch the faces of the poor, and the gestures of the proud. To see strange things. Machines, armies, multitudes, and shadows in the jungle. To see, and to take pleasure in seeing. To see and be instructed. To see and be amazed. (Describing the powers of photography; written for the launch of LIFE Magazine, 1936.)

Imagination is the beginning of reality.

Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination

The more we see the more we must be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

We have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.

Because you make a world that didn't exist before, and you can go into that world deeper and deeper. It's unbounded out there. One film takes you into one area, another film takes you into another area. There could be trillions, zillions of worlds that exist in the big space.

If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.

What you call magic is nothing more than an act of the imagination fired by the senses, then given shape by the power of your aura.

I am always trying to do something new and different. The first step is curiosity, questions. You pay attention to what fascinates you. If you can't shake it, there is something there.

Much of what we see in the universe ... starts out as imaginary. Often you must imagine something before you can come to terms with it.

Imagination is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.