Imagination and Inspiration Quotes

Once I've taken photographs, I look at them, and I get into them, and I'm there for the moment - and then that's it. I find little time for reflection.

Art is the objectification of feeling.

I never grew up thinking, 'One day I will play so and so' because I wasn't expecting to be an actor at all.

I have always believed that an artiste needs to respond to a story first. One has to feel it in order to live it.

Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.

A piece of sculpture has to be more than a block of wood.

One of the big surprises for me about Einstein was... that he wasn't this big introvert; he was more like a novelist or a painter. It's amazing how close society came to not benefiting from Albert Einstein's genius.

I believe art is a way to attune to what reality is, which is a weird reality.

For most of us, art is supposed to do something more than simply mirror the confusions of the world.

I never even dreamt of being a writer because I didn't feel allowed. When I was a child I was terribly ambitious, but I didn't know at all what this great thing would become.

I think that the destructive element is too much neglected in art.