Quotes About Inspiration

Art has to offer something other than stylized despair.

The great end of all arts is to make an impression on the imagination and the feeling. The imitation of nature frequently does this. Sometimes it fails and something else succeeds.

Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle.

A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored.

So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children.

Art just consists in making us swallow the commonplaces by charming us eternally.

Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.

An artist cannot be partially sincere any more than art can be an approximation of beauty.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.

There is no art without contemplation.

Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

All great art is a form of complaint

A work of art is an exaggeration.

Parameters are the things you bounce off to create art.

Art is what separates us from the animals.

Art will never be able to exist without nature.

Any excuse to live in New York and do art. Has to be one of the most rewarding experiences in the world.

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

Sometimes the painting starts to relate very directly to either sights seen or experiences felt, other times it just goes off on a tangent that you really can't articulate.

The canary bird in the coal mine theory of the arts: artists should be treasured as alarm systems.

An inventor is one who can see the applicability of means to supply demand five years before it is obvious to those skilled in the art.

At the center of everything we call 'the arts,' and children call 'play,' is something which seems somehow alive.

I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.