Quotes About Inspiration

But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live.

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

Art being so much greater than ourselves, it will not give up once it has taken hold.

The point of art is not simply to express ourselves, but to create an external, concrete form in which the soul of our lives can be evoked and contained.

A work of art comes only from inside a human being.

We're not choosing the art, the art is choosing us. The pieces are choosing the walls where they hang.

Mine is the art of inspiring people to turn themselves inside out, transform their suffering into art, their art into awareness and their awareness into action

I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.

To awaken human emotion is the highest level of art.

Art is not about something, Art is something

I was born into a world of art. I always thought that in life, you breathe, you eat, you go to sleep and you draw.

Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake.

A painting which does not take its inspiration from the heart is nothing more than futile juggling.

How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn't pull the trigger?

There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.

An artist can accomplish anything provided he doesn't accept facts or defeat for more than a few minutes.

The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe.

I draw manga, therefore I am!

Outside is the world; it's there. Pop Art looks out into the world.

The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.

If the real world is orange juice, then art is like orange-juice concentrate.

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

I am for an art that grows up not knowing it is art at all.