Quotes About Inspiration

Art is the one place we all turn to for solace.

I paint my own reality.

Art is a kind of illness.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

I have learned that what I have not drawn I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle.

The real function of art is to change mental patterns ... making new thought possible.

I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.

If I was an artist, and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art.

Art is a wound turned into light.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us will put out more and better ideas if our efforts are appreciated.

Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

I already have a wife who is too much for me.. she is my art, and my works are my children.

Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.

Without monsters and gods, art cannot enact a drama.

You don't do art for any other reason than to help your soul grow.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Art is an escape from reality.

All art is autobiographical.

Believe it or not, I can actually draw.

You can't make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it.

Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.

We were told, quite seriously, that there never would be a Canadian art because we had no art tradition.