Quotes About Inspiration

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

What art does is to coax us away from the mechanical and towards the miraculous.

Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.

Why shouldn't art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.

Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

One of the functions of art is to offer a more desirable reality - a model, as it were, of another style of existence with its own pace and its own cultural reference.

I believe that every innovative thought comes from a creative mindset....A creative mindset is what drives our world, and art is the base of that.

In every art, beginners must start with models of those who have practiced the same art before them.

A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.

If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing

At first, art imitates life. Then life will imitate art.Then life will find its very existence from the arts.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

Art is the soul of a people.

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

The pure, frank sentiments we hold in our hearts are the only truthful sources of art.

The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring.

The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal.

The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on their own.

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

The artist confronts chaos. The whole thing of art is, how do you organize chaos?

Art is too important not to share.

When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.