Arnold Newman Quotes

Art is about imagination. When you look at a picture from Salvador Dali, that's about imagination. When you look at Picasso, that's about imagination. Doing stuff from your heart.

I'm an artist in my heart.

A lot of photographers think that if they buy a better camera they'll be able to take better photographs. A better camera won't do a thing for you if you don't have anything in your head or in your heart.

Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure. If man wishes to express himself photographically, he must understand, surely to a certain extent, his relationship to life.

Everything's a film idea if this is what you do.I've always been secretly confident that I'd never run out of ideas,because I've never had any. I just live my life, see things theway I do, and I'm just looking for a notion to hang it all on.

Without art there is no hope.

I paint what cannot be photographed, something from the imagination... I photograph the things I don't want to paint, things that are already in existence.

I write because to write a new sentence, let alone a new poem, is to cross the threshold into both a larger existence and a profound mystery. A thought was not there, then it is. An image, a story, an idea about what it is to be human, did not exist, then it does. With every new poem, an emotion new to the heart, to the world, speaks itself into being.

The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.

As artists, we like night more than day sometimes.

I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece.

Things develop in front of my camera, and then I will try to do the best out of it. I am close, but in most of the scenes, I am trying not to be seen. I think that's the trick. I think it starts in your heart, goes to the head, and the head puts it into the finger.

Now that we do not have priests and philosophers any more, artists are the most important people in the world.

I love creating images, of course, because I'm an artist.

Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future.

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

Modeling isn't boring.

I think good music comes from the heart. That's my belief.

I think that everything is part of creativity - the more you create, the more you have ideas, and the more you meet people.

I have ideas whirring around my head all the time.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

Make good art.

The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.

Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.