Quotes About Inspiration

This idea of art for art's sake is a hoax.

I do think that there's art that is tortured, but I prefer art that has the joy in it.

The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter his rhyme.

Don't think about making art, just get it done.

Do you come to art to be comforted, or do you come to art to be re-skinned?

Art destroys silence.

An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.

There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter.

What gives me hope is art - it's the most powerful weapons ever created. It's a weapon of mass construction.

The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.

And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

The best art always comes unbidden.

For ages past the Genius of Literature and the Genius of Art have walked together hand in hand. For the Goddess of letters is blind, and only she of Art can lend her sight.

The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.

Although even when I am being idle I have plenty of food for thought both early and late - thoughts both about and not about art.

Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself.

I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others' expectations can be avoided.

Fashion, for me, is anything that's aesthetic and beautiful. Art, food, film. It's something that I appreciate and really like.