Quotes About Inspiration

I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. You're a writer because this is what you do.

The most tremendous genius raised Mozart above all masters, in all centuries and in all the arts.

...combining the concrete and the universal is at the center of what makes art important.

Without an elite in the arts, we have no leaders, which is to say we have no vision, which is to say we have no arts.

There is more real devotional feeling summoned from the temple of the mind by great music than by any sermon ever delivered.

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about.

It's frightening for one artist to see another one, any other one turn away from art.

A blessing on the printer's art!-- Books are the mentors of the heart.

I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos.

All I owe the world is my art.

The art finds kingdoms in a foot of ground.

No art comes from the conscious mind.

I received my training at an art academy, so what I produce is art. That's what is artistic about my photographs.

Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography.

Artists are prophets. They define the meaning of our lives and point the way.

I'm a terrible cook, but if I could cook, I would see that in art as well, it's how much creative energy you put into something.

All artists are two-headed calves.

While most people in the arts think they have to be constantly looking forward to be edgy and creative....the real secret of creativity is to go back and remember.

if you want to create art, you'd best have a deep belief in yourself and no ulterior motives.

Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.

Every artist, as child of his age, is impelled to express the spirit of his age.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin.

Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man.

I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.