Painting With Imagination

Imagined Anamnesis   acrylic on canvas  36" x 36"  J. Plesh

                                          

Imagination is the ability of forming mental images, sensations and concepts, in a time and way not perceived through sight, hearing or other senses. Imagination is the work of the mind that helps create. Imagination assists in providing meaning to experience and understanding to knowledge; it is a basic potency through which people make sense of the world, and contributes to the learning process.

“Our imagination is the most important faculty we possess. It can be our greatest resource or our most formidable adversary. It is through our imagination that we discern possibilities and options. Yet imagination is no mere blank slate on which we simply inscribe our will. Rather, imagination is the deepest voice of the soul and can be heard clearly only through cultivation and careful attention. A relationship with our imagination is a relationship with our deepest self.”        PAT B. ALLEN

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.    PABLO PICASSO

In the realist you have the sorry sight of the five         senses deprived of their imagination  ROBERT BRAULT

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.       ALBERT EINSTEIN