Quotes About Inspiration

All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it... Art [is] a form of active prayer.

The important thing is to keep on drawing when you start to paint. Never graduate from drawing.

I've taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art.

Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

As artists, we must learn to be self-nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them.

Internet can provide the power to believe in art in new formulas, because it is the newest medium for art.

When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die.

When I danced, I felt I was entering the temple of Art.

Art comes into being in that abstract interval between a thought and reality, and no one - not even the artist who created it - can remeasure the influences that caused it.

Art should make you think and feel. It doesn't have to match your couch.

Art isn't a product. It's an experience

Silent pictures show us how we lived and what our attitudes were. And as an art form, they can be wonderfully entertaining and often inspirational.

There's no wrong way of doing art. It's an expression of the individual.

Some people who look at abstract art say 'I could do that.' A good response is, 'Go ahead but then you'll be accused of copying.

The purpose of all art is to cause a deep and emotion, also one that is entertaining or pleasing. Out of the depth and entertainment comes value.

biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.

I like the platform to show your art and everything that goes along with that. To show your voice and hopefully find films that are more politically driven, films that maybe inspire.

Art, if it is successful, needs no explanation.

I'm married to an artist. I get a lot of inspiration from art, from the lighting in art, from the compositions in art, from the textures, and all of that. I'm always playing with it.

We rappers are role models.

You see the transformation that the arts have on young people. It changes their lives for the better. That's where my engagement is.

Once they witnessed one of his painting sold at auction for $100,000. And asked how you do it, he said, 'I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.'

Nothing in art should seem accidental, not even movement

The power of art can open our minds.