Quotes About Inspiration

In Spring! In the creation of art it must be as it is in Spring!

No person learned the art of archery from me, who did not in the end make me his target.

art is the pulse of a nation.

A game played with serious problems. That's what art is.

I became an animal painter because I loved to move among animals. I would study an animal and draw it in the position it took, and when it changed to another position I would draw that.

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.

I noticed that the large windows between the paintings [in the Musee d'Art Moderne] interested me more than the art exhibited. From then on, painting as I had known it was finished for me.

Art is a means to function thoroughly and passionately in a world that has a lot more to it than paint.

Art is fundamental, unique to each of us...Even in difficult economic times - especially in difficult economic times, the arts are essential.

Art is not living. It is the use of living. The artist has the ability to take the living and use it in a certain way and produce art.

I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.

The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world.

In the end nobody knows how it's done — how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools. Understanding a tool doesn't explain the magic of creation. Nothing can.

You cannot explain me with "isms." They are very bad for an artist. What one must believe in is color.

The real self of an artiste lies in art, so when an artiste performs, all the pain, trauma and tension get released through art, be it dancing, painting, singing, writing or even martial arts.

The arts are the hospitals for our souls.

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.

Art is no crime. It's every artist's responsibility to make art that is meaningful

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

Music is not written in red, white and blue. It is written in the heart's blood of the composer.

A bone heals, a bruise fades, but art is forever

Art tells gorgeous lies that come true.