Quotes About Inspiration

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

Like the sundial, my paint box counts no hours but sunny ones.

If I had to choose a single destination where I'd be held captive for the rest of my time in New York, I'd choose the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

True art lies in a reality that is felt.

Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand!

No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.

The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are.

Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to make that cheque, nobody putting art in their albums any more.

Great artists need great clients.

It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts.

The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.

Bruce Lee brought the martial arts movie to the attention of the world - and without him, I don't think that anyone would have ever heard of Jackie Chan.

Art doesn't have to do anything. It just has to be there for the fierce pleasure we take in doing it.

MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.

I don't paint to live, I live to paint.

A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful attempt to put on to canvas what is in front of him, but one who tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing.

Art should be something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue.

Creating something that is universally beautiful. That is art.

Fine art is knowledge made visible.

In art we are once again able to do all the things we have forgotten; we are able to walk on water; we speak to the angels who call us; we move, unfettered, among the stars.

All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.

Cooking may be as much a means of self-expression as any of the arts.

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.