Quotes About Inspiration

I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.

Art without color would lose much of its purpose.

Cinema is an art form.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

I had an art teacher who's the reason I got there in high school who encouraged me to go to Alabama. That's where she had gone and kept raving over their art department.

Art is the expression of those beauties and emotions that stir the human soul.

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.

Art arises from the interaction of the mind and the heart.

My art side is free and there are no strings attached.

I'd been painting rats for three years before someone said 'that's clever it's an anagram of art' and I had to pretend I'd known that all along.

I think that the first part of the art is making the art, but when art really becomes art is when it belongs to somebody else.

I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.

What are we singers but the silver-voiced messengers of the poet and the musician?

Can the plural possessive express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!

When we are moved by art we are grateful that the artist lived, grateful that he labored in the service of his gifts.

If you're mad at someone for being excited and inspired by your art then you're doing it wrong.

When I was a kid, a book I read advised young artist to be themselves. That decided it for me. I was a corny kind of guy, so I went in for corn.

It is hard to find beauty in the art of self expression.

The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of form to its inner meaning.

Creativity is the art of the impossible

I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private.

The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.

Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.