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Quotes About Inspiration

The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.
~ Sam Taylor-Johnson
I'm putting my consciousness towards trying to teach people through pictures and sculptures that there's something better in the world. That's what the world needs more of.
~ Peter M. Brant
Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?
~ Alexander McCall Smith
I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format.
~ Dick Bruna
If a man wants to be an artist, he must never look at pictures.
~ Winslow Homer
The thing is that when you don't carry a camera, that's when you see pictures in particular, or at least that's when you think you see pictures in particular. When you do carry it, if you do see one on the occasion that you do, you can take it.
~ Elliott Erwitt
Pictures help you to form the mental mold.
~ Robert Collier
I have always loved taking pictures. When I was young, I would carry a small camera with me on the sets.
~ Waheeda Rehman
I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.
~ David Hockney
I take a lot of pictures.
~ Damian Loeb
Music is like art, so I just paint all my pictures and put 'em out there.
~ Young Dolph
I haven't had a chance to decorate my dressing room yet, but I have these pictures of myself as a kid that I want to put up because I said, 'I really want to make sure that I take that kid with me on this journey.' I want him to experience this.
~ Leslie Odom, Jr.
I began my career creating art for an animated feature film, and it has been a life-long dream to tell some of the story of my own life - the story behind my art - through the medium of motion pictures.
~ Thomas Kinkade
I paint pictures with my raps.
~ E-40
I'm interested in painting the most beautifully compelling pictures and images and metaphors and stories and explanations possible that will put Jesus in language for a world that desperately needs to hear it.
~ Rob Bell
It draws you in and creates pictures, so what I do is almost like a talking story book.
~ Slick Rick
I am interested in being in pictures that I would like to see.
~ Burt Lancaster
I am just trying to find a way to make pictures.
~ Jasper Johns
I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter. To me, the making of the pictures is the most important thing.
~ Martin Mull
My thought has been shaped by books; my desires by pictures.
~ Mason Cooley
I look at my pictures, and I think, 'Well, how did I do that?'
~ Howard Hodgkin
I've been painting and drawing and taking pictures as long as I've been writing music - and I've actually been drawing longer than I've been writing music.
~ Brandon Boyd
You don't make pictures for Oscars.
~ Martin Scorsese
Some people take pictures; I write songs.
~ Lee DeWyze