Quotes About Inspiration

If you subtracted all of the great artists who never drank, who never went to excess, you wouldn't have any more art left. What kind of poem are you gonna get out of a glass of iced tea?

Evanescence fans aren't the popular kids in school. They aren't the cheerleaders. It's the art kids and the nerds and the kids who grow up to be the most interesting creative people.

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

This is what I think art is and what I demand of it: that it pull everyone in, that it show one person another's most intimate thoughts and feelings, that it throw open the window of the soul.

Art cannot be criticized because every mistake is a new creation

Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.

What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.

If you dance with your heart, your body will follow.

Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.

Art only begins where Imitation ends.

Everything I do is completely original-I made it up when I was a kid.

Art is a magic which makes the hours melt away and even days dissolve into seconds

Most people don't do something seminal. I've done it twice: with my tent and my bed. Picasso did it with Cubism.

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

The sky is the ultimate art gallery just above us.

Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art - the art of words.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

Art is doing something you really believe in.

Of all the wonders that the world had to offer, only art promised immortality.

The greatest art in the world is the art of storytelling.

The camera for an artist is just another tool. It is no more mechanical than a violin if you analyze it. Beyond the rudiments, it is up to the artist to create art, not the camera.

Art is either revolution or plagiarism

Nothing is a mistake. There's no win and no fail. There's only make.