Quotes About Inspiration

A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.

There should be something revelatory about art. It should be totally creative and open doors for new thoughts and experiences.

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.

The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.

And what more could I possibly ask as an artist than that your most precious visions, however rare, assume sometimes the forms of my images.

The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.

First be a magnificent artist and then you can do whatever, but the art must be first.

Never stop looking, no matter where you are, everywhere there are good photographs

When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting.

Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don't see a different purpose for it now.

Every person who is really an artist desires to create inside of himself another, deeper, more interesting life than the one that actually surrounds him.

The most pleasurable thing in the world, for me, is to see something and then translate how I see it.

Pictures just come to my mind and I tell my heart to go ahead.

Art is not only about angst.

My contribution to the world is my ability to draw. I will draw as much as I can for as many people as I can for as long as I can.

For me it's very important to turn Kiev into one of the main centers of contemporary art in the world. There is New York. There's London. And there will be Kiev. Everyone will come and say, 'Wow!

Art is a line around your thoughts.

The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it.

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.

Without atmosphere a painting is nothing.

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery.

Art is something that happens inside us. We look at things in the world, and we become excited by them. We understand our own possibilities of becoming. And that's what art is.