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Quotes About Inspiration

Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
~ Brian Eno
Architecture is art, but art vastly contaminated by many other things. Contaminated in the best sense of the word – fed, fertilised by many things.
~ Renzo Piano
There must be something about art... almost all cultures have done art. It's a refining of the senses, which are there to keep us alive. As far as we know, no other animals do that.
~ Roy Lichtenstein
Art does not die because there is no more art. It dies because there is too much.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Strong and convincing art has never arisen from theories.
~ Mary Wigman
I don't believe in an art that is not born out of man's need to open his heart.
~ Edvard Munch
Art is whatever makes you proud to be human.
~ Unknown
The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. ... They are essential to our comprehension of consciousness and ourselves.
~ Edward Albee
The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize its supreme purpose through him.
~ Carl Jung
Art is born out of an ill-designed world.
~ Andrei Tarkovsky
If painting is no longer needed, it seems a pity that some of us are born into the world with such a passion for line and color.
~ Mary Cassatt
An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
~ William Faulkner
Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.
~ Stephen Sondheim
It would make me feel that creative art has a chance in this crazy world that we all live in.
~ Jimmy Carl Black
Thank you for the tragedy. I need it for my art.
~ Kurt Cobain
Rule of art: Cant kills creativity!
~ Camille Paglia
Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.
~ Pablo Picasso
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
~ Igor Stravinsky
Originally, I didn't want to say too much about the art.
~ Joel Houston
It's seldom you make a great picture. you have to milk the cow quite a lot to get plenty of milk to make a little cheese.
~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
The artist is the person who makes life more interesting or beautiful, more understandable or mysterious, or probably, in the best sense, more wonderful.
~ George Bellows
More of me comes out when I improvise.
~ Edward Hopper
The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.
~ Paul Klee