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Quotes About Inspiration

I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don't normally get to go.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
Where does contagion end and art begin?
~ Unknown
Art is my life and my life is art.
~ Yoko Ono
Art is the giving by each man of his evidence to the world. Those who wish to give, love to give, discover the pleasure of giving. Those who give are tremendously strong.
~ Robert Henri
Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.
~ Peter Shaffer, Amadeus
Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself.
~ Edward Hirsch
We always search for the signature of God to prove His existence. And now I say unto you that Art is His very signature!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.
~ G.K. Chesterton
Not everybody has a talent for painting, or for the piano, or for dance. But we can write our way into the artist's head and into his problems and solutions. Or we can go there with another writer.
~ William Zinsser
She has given me a way out.
~ Alison Bechdel
Great artists are a little too gifted to be bound by boxes and labels, and in saying that, the label 'artist' is to be used lightly.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life.
~ Timothy J. Keller
The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art.
~ Henri Matisse
When you steal from an artist you are stealing their blood, sweat and tears.
~ Tyler Shields
I appreciated art, long before I could produce it.
~ Wayne Gerard Trotman
Works of Art are of an infinite loneliness.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.
~ George Santayana
I view art as an inspirational tool.
~ Thomas Kincade
Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.
~ Conor Oberst
Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.
~ Marilyn French
What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish patterns out of chaos.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.
~ Arthur Erickson
Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning.
~ Mickey Hart
Filmmaking can be a fine art.
~ Terri Windling