Quotes About Inspiration

Art is like ham-it nourishes people.

Where there is no heart there is no art.

The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.

Art is a guarantee of sanity. That is the most important thing I have said.

It is through art that we will prevail and we will endure. It lives on after us and defines us as people.

I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned.

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.

If you are only moved by color relationships, you are missing the point. I am interested in expressing the big emotions - tragedy, ecstasy, doom.

Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

The purpose of truly transcendent art is to express something you are not yet, but something that you can become.

That is what art is at the end of the day: It's an escapism that we all crave.

The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

All authentic art is conceived at a sacred moment and nourished in a blessed hour; an inner impulse creates it, often without the artist being aware of it.

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit.

Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.

A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

Art is like a lover whom you run away from but who comes back and picks you up.

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.

Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.