Quotes About Inspiration

In art, to express the infinite one should suggest infinitely more than is expressed.

I don't wish power, only art -art and passion.

Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts.

When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild.

An artist's career always begins tomorrow

It doesn't matter the genre or type of art, if it's authentic there's an apparent beauty to it and as an artist, that's very inspiring.

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

Great art stretches the taste, it doesn't follow tastes.

Creative expression and visual comprehension are really the handmaidens of art. One cannot thrive without the other.

But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that.

Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.

Exposure to the arts and culture is enormously valuable.

I guess every musician looks forward to a point where they can just kind of make an album that truly is like a nice art album.

In art, there are tears that do often lie too deep for thoughts.

I drew a picture on the back of a calendar in pencil. In those days they used to give out free calendars, I had no art paper, so I took whatever else I could.

Songwriting's never been a natural art for me; it's always been a bit of a struggle.

Ninja Turtles taught me how to meditate. They got me into martial arts. They helped make me who I am today.

Originality in art puts charm where it wasn't.

Art lies in the fine choice. The artist does not teach us to see facts: he teaches us to feel harmonies.

The more you think, the more you ruin things. Art has to come viscerally; otherwise, forget it.

Do you know that drawing with words is also an art... ?

Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what really produced a master like Raphael.