Quotes About Inspiration

I'd already decided I wanted to design shoes after I saw a sign in the Museum of African and Oceanic Art forbidding high heels. Well, who could resist?

In art school we're always taught that art is an end in itself - art for art's sake, expressing yourself, and that that's enough.

One of the biggest things happening in the art world is this idea of expansion. No one embodies this aspect of what art is becoming better than James Franco.

A series is a big deal, and there are a lot of people out there writing stuff that don't know what art is.

We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted.

Mind is shapely, Art is shapely.

I went to art school when I was little.

I think art is definitely a great thing, and looked at as a way to open people up.

Art is why I get up in the morning, but my definition ends there.

All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.

I was always exploring relationships between art and science.

That art is best which suggests most.

Art is as useful as bread.

The most glorious thing about working in the collaborative art is when you have somebody like Susan Kingsley or Kathy Bates who are better than your play.

When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.

Art is a never-ending dance of illusions.

I was attracted to things that combined art and science equally. I've always been equally interested in art design, science and engineering.

The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.

I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning.

Art is something out of the ordinary commenting on the ordinary.

I grew up in the art world.

Making music and art is about expressing something that's universally human, maybe even beyond human, at best.

Art is really about how you capture different things you see around you and bring them into forms and words and shapes and meaning.

I started to paint in the year 2000. I never thought of going to an art school, even though I loved art.