Quotes About Inspiration

We have art so that we shall not die of reality.

The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Anything can be art. Anything can be self-expression . Now you take the weapon and run with it.

My people will sleep for one hundred years, but when they awake, it will be the artists who give them their spirit back.

The arts, it has been said, cannot change the world, but they may change human beings who might change the world.

I would like to paint the way a bird sings.

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

Filling a space in a beautiful way - that is what art means to me.

Creating is about sharing ideas, sharing aesthetics, sharing what you believe in with other people.

Making art is about accepting what's going on around you and turning it into

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.

The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.

The function of art is to struggle against obligation.

Art is a ripening, an evolution, an uplifting which enables us to emerge from darkness into a blaze of light.

The act of painting is about one heart telling another heart where he found salvation.

If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces.

When one is painting one does not think.

Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality.

Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Everything starts from a dot.

True alchemy lies in this formula: 'Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse'.