Quotes About Inspiration

One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer

An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.

We do not make art. We have unnamable motors and dangerous impulses that occupy our thoughts.

Mystery is the basic element of all works of art.

Without electricity, there can be no art.

Art transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary.

I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.

Sleep with rockstars...Support the arts.

Light is impressionism.

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

To all appearances, the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing.

Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.

The video camera dominates art. It's a bore, it makes everything look a bit the same. If you look at things with a pencil and paper in your hand, you are going to see far more.

Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.

Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.

Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.

A deliberate plan is not always necessary for the highest art; it emerges.

There is no art without Eros.

Creativity is the art of concealing your sources.

Painting is like breathing to me. It's what I do all the time. Every day I make art, whether it is painting, writing or making a movie.

The 1,000 Buddha, to me, is almost like a contemporary art piece.

I do dream about art, and images come to me in dreams. I am definitely hoping to be in touch with my subconscious. I expect a call any minute.

It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.

On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.