Quotes About Inspiration

The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward.

Chaos is everywhere - and artists, to fashion art and live truthfully, have no choice but to invite this unwanted guest right into the studio.

Art shows us how to see things that are constructive and good, and to be an active part of that.

It is the greatest of crimes to depress true art and science.

I would go there quite frequently. I met and became close with John Szarkowski of the Museum of Modern Art. He was incredibly supportive about me working in color.

I've always been doing some sort of art. I started off, when I was very young, painting.

Artists will sometimes speak of Rome with disparagement or indifference while it is before them; but no artist ewer lived in Rome and then left it, without sighing to return.

I worked with someone else's photos; I cropped them in whatever way I wanted and put words on top of them. I knew how to do it with my eyes closed. Why couldn't that be my art?

Art still has truth. Take refuge there.

In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced human seldom produces art. It's that imbalance which impels us... The artist lives with anxiety.

No piece of art can depict feelings if a piece of reality is not included in it.

There's no such thing beneath the heavens as conditions favorable to art. Art must crash through or perish.

The safest way to avoid the world is through art; and the safest way to be linked to the world is through art.

Paint what you feel. Paint what you see. Paint what is real to you.

The artist is the lover of nature; therefore he is her slave and her master.

There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.

The first choice an artist makes is precisely to be an artist, and if he chooses to be an artist it is in consideration of what he is himself and because of a certain idea he has of art

Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.

The highs, the lows, the peaks, the valleys, whatever, it's all going to go into the art, whether I'm singing or acting or whatever.

In the world of Art there are no wrong choices.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to create.

The arts are not a way to make a living.

Art does not copy nature - it suggests it.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art