Quotes About Inspiration

And you know the reason I really love the stars is that we cannot hurt them. We can't burn them, or melt them, or make them overflow. We can't flood them, or blow them up, or turn them out. But we are reaching for them. We are reaching.

You need to screw up to learn. You need to experience to create greatness.

You need to screw up to learn. You need to experience to create greatness. It's not just about bowls, you know.

Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decides this? Does algebra move you to tears? Can plural possessives express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!

Mr. Freeman sighs. No imagination. What are you thirteen? Fourteen? You've already let them beat your creativity out of you!

Mr. Freeman: You are getting better at this, but it's not good enough. This looks like a tree,but it is an average, ordinary, everyday, boring tree. Breathe life into it. Make it bend - trees are flexible, so they don't snap. Scar it, give it a twisted branch - perfect trees don't exist. Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree.

too many grown-ups tell kids to follow their dreams like that's going to get them somewhere Auntie Laurie says follow your nightmares instead cuz when you figure out what's eating you alive you can slay it

When life sucks, read. They can't yell at you for that. And if they do, then you can ignore them.

Can the plural possessive express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!

the only thing that helped me breathe was opening a book

I think you have a lot to say. I'd like to hear it.

Picasso." He whispers like a priest. "Picasso. Who saw the truth. Who painted the truth, molded it, ripped from the earth with two angry hands.

Maybe I'll be an artist if I grow up.

Too many grown ups tell kids to follow their dreams, like that's going to get them somewhere. Auntie Laurie says follow your nightmares instead. Because when you figure out what's eating you alive, you can slay it.

I am spinning the silk threads of my story, weaving the fabric of my world.

Me: All right, but you said we had to put emotion into our art. I don't know what that means. I don't know what I'm supposed to feel.

Picasso. He whispers like a priest. Picasso. Who saw the truth. Who painted the truth, moulded it, ripped from the earth with two angry hands.

Welcome to the only class that will teach you to how to survive" Welcome to Art.

Welcome to the only class that will teach you how to survive. Welcome to art. This is where you find your true self, if you dare(16)".

Light up the stars in your brain, electrify your body, buckle on your smile, and everybody will love you again.

Mr. Freeman says fear is a great place to begin art.

Maybe I'll be an artist if I grow up.

That's the story I am dying to knit together, if I could only find the pattern.

Set foot on the campus and it changes you forever. It's... He paused like he was searching for the right word, something I'd never seen him do before. It's Nerdvana! he finally declared.