Quotes About Inspiration

Making art is different for everyone.

I feel like contemporary art is everywhere now and with the rise of the internet, it's so much easier to see what artists are doing and to follow their careers.

I had no idea what art was. There was one art class in high school, but it didn't make a big impression on me. Then I went to college and thought I'd become a writer.

Art is not meant to be created in stolen moments only.

Art is fast, but with art you're tied down. That's too negative. What I mean is, you have a business and a place that you go every day. I guess some artists do move around.

Art class was my thing, but not any other class.

... Art is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

The power of art is that it can connect us to one another, and to larger truths about what it means to be alive and what it means to be human.

I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.

I've always been obsessed by visual art as I have been by music personally, but that doesn't mean anything professionally.

I've never been interested in, much in the politics of the art world, it doesn't interest me.

Art isn't about following the rules. It's about breaking them.

One of the pleasures of art is that it enables the mind to move in unanticipated directions, to make connections that may be in some sense errors but are fruitful nonetheless.

Most great art is freedom within form. Without form, we are amateurs, without freedom, we are robots.

I have long been a fan and enthusiast where art is concerned.

You can't teach art, so ART SCHOOL is a contradiction in terms.

Art is real and imaginary, two worlds rolled into one - the fulfillment of the artist's insatiable soul.

Art is a framework, a kind of living trellis, on which public dreaming can shape itself.

I think furniture is art. I don't think art is just for your walls - I think everything that someone has made is a piece of art.

I think so much of art is unconscious anyway, the artist doesn't know the real reason they're doing it. They're just kind of going along with it intuitively.

For me taking a pragmatic decision when it comes to art is almost an oxymoron. The reason I first picked up a pen and wrote a story had nothing pragmatic in it.

grievance does not make for great art.

the one universal form of art is music.

No art is sunk in the self, but rather, in art the self becomes self-forgetful in order to meet the demands of the thing seen and the thing being made.