Quotes About Inspiration

If it [dabbling in art] didn't amuse me, I beg you to believe that I wouldn't do it.

The consolation of art comes in many forms... For some it is making, for others it is having.

I started thinking what could happen with my art and I realized that the biggest thing that could is that it winds up in a museum. It's like finding a rare animal and putting it in the zoo.

As an artist, I've always wanted to participate in the dialogue of art with other artists.

I want to be free... free to develop my art.

My art career actually began under the kitchen table. My mother wanted to get me out of her hair while she cooked, so she laid out some paper and pencils on the floor under the kitchen table.

Dance is an art, so day by day, it's growing and there are new things that can be done.

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

Art was something I could do better. It gave me a sense of self.

In the study of the fine arts, they mutually assist each other.

Fashion should go back to what it should be: closer to art, not totally commercial but have some artistic value at its core.

The marathon is an art; the marathoner is an artist.

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

A painting is what you make of it, besides which, 'Moon, Weeping' has a better ring to it than 'Paintbrush, Dripping.

When we talk about contemporary art and contemporary artists, we usually imagine artists who are alive. But I feel very uncomfortable about placing a border between living artists and dead artists.

For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.

I'd rather produce art than become art.

The theater is necessary. Dance is necessary. Song is necessary. The arts are necessary- they are a necessary part of our lives

Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person in a lifetime and make a difference - you have succeeded.

I think with art you have to do a bit of transforming of the subject to make the art worth having.

Creativity is the art that can give rise to visionary metaphorical relationships, as opposed to purely psy-chological ones.

Artists, like yourself, are born with a need to express that's just innate.

The process of art-making is full of happy accidents - what fun!

What is art? Nature concentrated.