Quotes About Inspiration

Works of art are landscapes of the mind.

I think artists almost always end up turning to what's around them, what's in their environment or outside their window.

I get my inspiration from books, pictures, art. I might find a vintage scarf and say, "I think this should be our color palette."

Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist.

Art is for stimulation, excitement, adventure.

The language of art is celestial in origin and can only be understood by the chosen.

The aim of art is to create space.

Any genuine work of art generates new work.

If we expose kids to books and art, nothing but good can come from it.

Art is basically entertainment.

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.

Not everything you do is going to be a masterpiece, but you get art there and you try and sometimes it really happens. The other times you're just stretching your soul.

All painting - the painting of the past as well as of the present - shows us that its essential plastic means were only line and color.

An art book is a museum without walls.

And no book, and possibly no painting, when it is finished, is ever exactly like the first dream of it.

An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.

Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration only can give birth to a work of art. The least of man's original emanation is better than the best of borrowed thought.

Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.

Collage is the twentieth century's greatest innovation

Painting is more important than art.

Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings.

Art comes from everywhere. It's your response to your surroundings.

A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art.

Art seems to me to be above all a state of soul.