Quotes About Inspiration

Maybe you can make art out of unredeemed pain, but only if you're a genius -- Dostoyevsky perhaps.

And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art. . .

I hate studio. For me, studio is a trap to overproduce and repeat yourself. It is a habit that leads to art pollution.

Art is craft, not inspiration.

Art is the escape from personality.

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to.

"A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist."

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.

The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.

The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

Often Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

The purpose of art is to bring people into presence.

Art can heal it if art is allowed to exist. And if art is slowly wiped off the face of the planet, then what tools do we have to reach people, to appeal to them and all of their senses?

Making art in America is about saving one's soul.

One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the complexes.

I, in the end, make art for myself.

I don't believe in originality in art. I think we exist on this earth to inspire each other, through our actions, through our deeds, and through who we are. We're always borrowing.

When you feel that you can't fight it, you just go for it. When it comes to the arts, passion should always trump common sense.

Art, indeed, began with abstraction.

True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it.

Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.

I did go to a performing arts school, so that facilitated my creativity, though I ended up going in a more musical direction.

The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.