Quotes About Inspiration

Art should never be sociological; it has got to be timeless. It's got to be your vision and how you can represent the world you see.

The cinema occupies an important place in the overall development of art and literature.

Sculpture is an art of the open air... I would rather have a piece of my sculpture put in a landscape, almost any landscape, than in, or on, the most beautiful building I know.

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Architecture is for the young. If our teenagers don't get architecture - if they are not inspired, (then) we won't have the architecture that we must have if this country is going to be beautiful.

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings

My paintings are only the ashes of my art

Art is, nowadays, our new religion and museums are our cathedrals.

How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.

All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist.

Where the material ends, art begins.

We know that all the arts are brothers, that each of them illuminates another, and that a universal light results.

Art does not come from thinking but from responding.

In a sick world, it is the first duty of the artist to get well.

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

Art is not to throw light but to be light.

I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.

All art needs this visible world and will always need it. Quite simply because, being accessible to all, it is the key to all other worlds.

Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.

Architecture is art, nothing else.

One might say that where Religion becomes artificial, it is reserved for Art to save the spirit of religion.

This everyday world affects the way art is created as much as it conditions its response.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.