Quotes About Inspiration

As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.

A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.

We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.

I'd like to make as much art as I possibly can before I die, so I'm working on a few things.

The portal of healing and creativity always takes us into the realm of the spirit.

To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.

The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook.

I don't say everything, but I paint everything.

Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look upon them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

The world is beautiful but not sayable. That's why we need art.

Our aim is to take our art to the world and make people understand what it is to move.

As an artist one has no home in Europe except in Paris.

My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.

All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

This is what I call participation in the world of ideas. That is what art-making is.

Art is an intersection of many human needs.

Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.

I was much more interested in literature than I was in art. I just got into art by mistake.

The centipede has rhythm and flow in its hundred legs precisely because it does not have to think about it. Consider this the next time you move the instruments of your art.

Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. It can for children - for anyone. It still does for me.

All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.