Quotes About Inspiration

The arts often realize human truths well before other branches of human endeavor.

An artist represents an oppressed people and makes revolution irresistible.

Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.

I don't invent characters because the Almightly has already invented millions... Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but learn how to read them.

Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts.

There are some things which cannot be learned, though they can be studied. Among them are the laws of art—and the lawlessness of it, as well.

The aesthetic principle is the same in every art, only the material differs.

Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that.

Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804)

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of ones own, in ones relation to the tool, the material and the colors.

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument.

Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.

There is no art without a poetic aim.

Art sweeps the everyday dust from your soul.

I don't really believe in 'directions' in art; the rope twists as you follow it, that's all.

It is not I that am drawing, it is this thing at the end of my hand.

Art is the conveyance of spirit by means of matter.

I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing to abstract art. That was my first creative thing before guitar or comedy.

There is no color line in art.

Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint.

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all... feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique - all these are in the middle.

I sit before flowers hoping they will train me in the art of opening up