Quotes About Inspiration

I realise the power of art that does not hang on the walls of galleries.

I make records so I can buy art.

Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

I get strength from my art - all the paintings I own are powerful.

Art, of course, is a way of thinking, a way of mining reality.

Everybody who cares for his art seeks the essence of his own technique.

Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.

I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz.

Art is the daughter of pleasure.

Surprise is key in all art.

I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art.

Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure.

We cannot underestimate the power of the different art forms, and the correspondences between them, which are an unending source of inspiration and enrichment.

I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there

The spontaneous is the most beautiful thing that can appear in a picture, but nothing in art appears less spontaneously than that.

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

Artists everywhere steal mercilessly all the time and I think this is healthy.

There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.

A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar.

Drawing is the cornerstone of the graphic, plastic arts. Drawing is the coordination of line, tone, and color symbols into formations that express the artist's thought.

The artist does not really create; he discovers.