Quotes About Inspiration

It was only after I began to write fiction that I found a way to connect with painting.

I have to go with what the painting says to me. The painting is always informing me. I'm its servant; it's not mine. I'm doing what it wants.

Years ago, when I was in Siena for the first time, I saw the works of Duccio, whose deeply emotional painting from the thirteenth century has never left me.

I started painting when I was in high school.

I'd always loved writing, in the same way that I'd loved painting. I wouldn't have seen it as a career.

Mount Tamalpais became my house. For Cezanne, Sainte-Victoire was no longer a mountain. It was an absolute. It was painting.

I've been working in sculpture and painting since 1920.

I've been doing this since I was a kid. Then, I got in trouble for painting like this on the wall, but now, I get paid for it.

I've painted in the past, but I only average about one painting a year, and the last painting I did, I actually really liked.

We try to buy from living artists because we love to understand why they are painting or sculpting and get into their minds.

I'm trying to make paintings like giant musical chords, with a polyphony of colours that is nuts but works.

I like the transience of Klimt paintings.

It's absurd to talk about paintings that you haven't finished.

Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that.

You get a painting idea, and you go do that. You get a cinema idea, and you go in to do that. The difference is, even though the paintings might take some time to make, with cinema you are booked for a year and a half, minimum.

My writing and my paintings do not have a direct connection in my mind. But I am sure they influence each other in the measure that everything we do is linked to whatever we are, which includes whatever we have done or are doing.

If every individual starts listening to poetry, watch plays, and see paintings, they'll become a better human.

I'm not the kind of artist who has an idea and then carries it out; it's more like I find what the idea was through doing the paintings.

What inspires me to paint is life, my emotions, through my paintings I want people to understand that life isn't always happy but you should be always hopeful that's why I use bright colors in my paintings, that's what I want people to feel about me and when they see my art.

I really want to continue doing art. I would love to go back to doing paintings one day.

I've been attracted to imagery and occasionally I've drawn from it, but I never thought I'd be painting these paintings. I didn't have any desire to. I didn't think there was any reason to.

I believe that 100, 200, 300 years from now, all these paintings will be around because they're the first paintings of humans doing things off this Earth.

The people I feel inspired around draw pictures, they make paintings.

Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and, also, old films.