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Quotes About Inspiration

In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.
~ Raymond Chandler
The culture of any country is gauged first by its progress in art.
~ Ignacy Jan Paderewski
We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.
~ Tanith Lee
I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".
~ Vincent Van Gogh
A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.
~ Henri Matisse
If i were asked to say what is at once the most important production of Art and the thing most to be longed for, I should answer, A beautiful House.
~ William Morris
There's nothing as human as hunger. There's no creation without talent, I give you that, but talent is cheap. Talent goes begging. Hunger is the piston of art.
~ Stephen King
Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.
~ Jane Yolen
A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
All art is but imitation of nature.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
~ Eugene Ionesco
Some say art is our highest form of hope. . . . Perhaps it's our only hope.
~ Roma Tearne, Mosquito
It is ten per cent how you draw, and ninety per cent what you draw.
~ Andrew Loomis
The temple of art is built in words.
~ Josiah Gilbert Holland
The future belongs to us. I think that art is a force that can change the world.
~ Shahin Najafi
Don't try to be an artist. Find the thing within you that needs to be expressed. You might find it is art.
~ Duane Michals
Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art.
~ Marcel Boulestin
Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long / To speak of that which gives thee all thy might?
~ William Shakespeare
Our art is an adventure. It is a dream come true.
~ Jack White
Dance is the stepchild of the arts.
~ Twyla Tharp
The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.
~ Robert Townsend
Art is one of the sources through which the soul expresses itself and inspires others. But to express art thoroughly, one must have the inner emotions opened thoroughly.
~ Meher Baba
For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow