Quotes About Inspiration

Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Obsession is beautiful. It's what makes art.

I went back to my mother's house recently and I saw some of my earlier works as a 15-year-old art student. And a lot of them were reiterations of classic works.

Coming into Pacifica I knew that I wanted whatever I was going to learn there, I knew I wanted to integrate that into my art no matter what.

Nobody needs an Artist, but everyone needs ART.

A true artist is driven by the never-ending desire to create.

Conquering the world with words, leading the children like herds.

Let your deafness no longer be a secret - even in art.

No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.

There's nothing more tragic than artists from the 70s still doing art from the 70s.

Songwriting is a mysterious art. When I sit down to write a song, the end result should be mysterious and have this dark quality.

If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.

Art can make chaos seductive.

Rule of art: let half-blind purpose lead you.

The brightest sun of the art always rises on the horizons of unhappiness.

One of my favorite films is LATE SPRING by Yasujiro Ozu. To me, it represents film as art.

And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.

I don't think I am going to do pictures which are anything like Renaissance art.

I feel lost not doing art, unsatisfied, anxious, bored. Everything else in comparison seems not terribly important.

No art should be fashionable.

Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.

If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.

It's nice to have a little bit of art to fall back on.

Artists make art... everyone else talks about it.