Quotes About Inspiration

The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.

Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but production.

All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.

Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

All art is autobiographical. You can only create what you are.

I have looked for the center of the art scene. I went to Paris as a student. I lived in Venice, California.

Color and I are one. I am a painter.

When the study of the arts leads to the adoration of the formula (heaven forbid), we shall be lost.

When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.

Art is not special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself if it is good.

Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it's in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one's own.

A walk down 14th street is more amazing than any masterpiece of art.

The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls 'inspiration.'

Art flows more easily when you are not thinking about what 'should' be in it or how it 'should' be done. The Impressionists taught us to look and see, not assume.

For art to be art it has to cure.

Magic and art tend to share a lot of the same language. They both talk about evocation, invocation, and conjuring.

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.

It looks like the kind of thing my daughter would bring back from school art lessons.

The power of art can break the shackles that bind and divide human beings.

Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.

My work is all about creating new paths for thinking about the possibilities inherent in all art; another world is possible!

First I have a think, and then I put a line around it.