Gordon Parks Quotes

A person without imagination is like a bird without wings.

Creativity is intelligence having fun.

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

Imagination is the highest form of research.

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

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way.

Art is not a thing, it is a way.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

Art is the most beautiful of all lies.

The painter has the universe in his mind and hands.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Art is not freedom from discipline, but disciplined freedom.

The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

Art is the most beautiful of all lies.

The painter has the universe in his mind and hands.

Art is not freedom from discipline, but disciplined freedom.

The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

Art is not a thing, it is a way.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism.

The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.

Art is not a mirror to reflect reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.

Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.

Art is the proper task of life.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

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

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Art is not a thing, it is a way.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

Art is the most beautiful of all lies.

The painter has the universe in his mind and hands.

Art is not freedom from discipline, but disciplined freedom.

The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

Art is not a mirror to reflect reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.

Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.

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