Quotes About Inspiration

I have a large number of enthusiastic admirers of my art. And they all sing a hymn in praise from the bottom of their hearts for my art.

Art is a guarantee of sanity.

Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.

To sense the invisible and to be able to create it, that is art.

With the true artist, the social formula that he recommends is a matter of secondary importance; the source of his art, its animating spirit, is decisive.

In movies, storytelling and every single art form, we're creating wonder. You're starting with a blank page and creating something that doesn't exist.

It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.

The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.

The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn.

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.

You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.

Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.

For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present.

At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important.

Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

I do not like to be a prophet. I like better to paint than to predict what the next painters will do. Though I have a feeling that consideration of order is very much in the air.

Songwriting is a very frustrating art form. You have to get on tape exactly what's playing inside your head

Do not set out to make Mexican art, or American, Chinese, or Russian art. Think in terms of universality.

Painting is the art of hollowing a surface.

Basically the message is: Steal It! Art, music, culture, the odd book and the slab of cheese... the new will be built upon the ruins of the old.