Quotes About Inspiration

To an art historian a Giotto is a 14th Century painting. To an artist it was painted yesterday. We free ourselves from the past when we see it freshly.

I'm trying to paint a picture of what I have seen and what moved me, as well as I can. That's all.

In the art game we do our own cooking.

I think that experiencing through art is a wonderful way to expand the horizon and everything around it.

The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.

We express our art in everything we say, everything we feel, and everything we do. The creation is ongoing, it is endless, it is happening in every moment.

The picture must all come out of the artist's inside, awareness of forms and figures... It is more than memory. It is the image as it lives in the consciousness, alive like a vision, but unknown.

When art dresses itself in the most worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

Art in the Church fundamentally exists for evangelization

Have you not seen that in our days Of any whose story, song or art Delights us, our sincerest praise Means, when all's said, 'You break my heart?

The naturalist picked up the eagle and said to it, "Thou dost belong to the sky and not to this earth; stretch forth thy wings and fly."

Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth.

Whenever I see a Frans Hals I feel like painting, but when I see a Rembrandt I feel like giving up!

I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the Navy, there wasn't much to draw at sea. So I began writing, and I began reading a lot.

How many attempts, now happy, now unhappy!... He who has not felt the difficulties of his art does nothing that counts.

Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.

Twitter has to be about art. It can't be about banal things. Banal things and art are two different worlds.

Don't think about making art.

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.

It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art.

Art moves. Hence its civilizing power.

Artists don't often know much about writing... but they don't bray so much about writing as writers do about art.

Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.

I was always an artist. I was a broker to earn a living, but I was always thinking about my art.