Quotes About Inspiration

Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another.

If I set out to sculpt a standing man and it becomes a lying woman, I know I am making art.

All great works of art are trophies of victorious struggle.

Painting is a means of self-enlightenment.

Hardening of the categories causes art disease.

Please DO waste art materials. Use paper. Empty paint jars. Deplete pens. if it's teaching you stuff, it's not being wasted.

Art is the only thing you cannot punch a button for. You must do it the old-fashioned way. Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.

Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.

Whether it be personal or musical, I just think Im a walking art piece, just a ball of creativity.

There is never a lack of subject matter; just absence of creativity.

Cerebration is the enemy of originality in art.

Art starts alone - and convinces society later.

Art is not made for anybody and is, at the same time, for everybody.

The purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder.

The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.

My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece

Art is made by the alone for the alone.

Our thoughts are to the individual as our art is to the community.

An artist has been defined as a neurotic who continually cures himeself with his art

He who loses the arts loses the culture.

I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man's urge to open his heart

At culinary school, none of the things we use to define ourselves outside that world - actor, producer, student - none of that matters. It's a magical art form.

But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched with the same madness and genius.