Imagination Quotes

The ability to see what isn't there yet. Dreamers and builders on the power of 'what if.'

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"I believe in the absolute reality of my dreams."
Salvador Dalí
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"Dalí will be the first authentic paranoiac-critic work of art."
Salvador Dalí
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"People should like lots of things. If they like just one thing, it's boring."
Andy Warhol
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"Everyone has their own America, and then they have pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they can't see."
Andy Warhol
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"I'd rather hear about someone's dreams than their reality."
Andy Warhol
"I would paint my own atmosphere."
Claude Monet
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"Imagination is the bridge between the visible and the invisible worlds."
Rembrandt van Rijn
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"The power of imagination lies in its ability to envision what does not yet exist."
Rembrandt van Rijn
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"Imagination is the only faculty that makes us truly human."
Rembrandt van Rijn
"The unconscious is a very important thing. It's the source."
Jackson Pollock
"The viewer must complete the painting in their own mind."
Jackson Pollock
"The canvas is a field of all possibilities."
Jackson Pollock
"I am seeking to paint the invisible made visible."
Jackson Pollock
"The artist must remain open to surprise and discovery."
Jackson Pollock
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"The universe is a spherical entity; that is why the eye is round."
Salvador Dalí
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"I paint things as they could be, not as they are."
Salvador Dalí
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"The future is liquid and malleable like wax in the hands of desire."
Salvador Dalí
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"The object of art is not to represent things as they are, but as they might be."
Salvador Dalí
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"The most important organ in the human body is the imagination."
Salvador Dalí
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"The invisible is as real as the visible; perhaps more so."
Salvador Dalí
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"Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination."
Vincent van Gogh
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"It is not on the canvas that I paint, but in my head."
Vincent van Gogh
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"Gee, I'd like to be reincarnated as a big diamond brooch."
Andy Warhol
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"I want to come back as a door."
Andy Warhol
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"Silver is the future."
Andy Warhol
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"Imagination is more valuable than knowledge."
Yair Lapid
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"Imagination is the spark of human progress."
Yair Lapid
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"Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe where you were expecting to find shirts."
Frida Kahlo
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"I am swimming in a sea of my own creation."
Frida Kahlo
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"The true test of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."
Leonardo da Vinci