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Quotes About Inspiration

In the art world Robert Rauschenberg had been combining common materials that people thought was art and beautiful, and it was. If he could do that, I could emulate him.
~ Frank Gehry
Art is the right hand of Nature.
~ Friedrich Schiller
One goal of my art is to help people remember why they are here now.
~ Unknown
Only a lunatic would think that art is superior to nature.
~ Gao Xingjian
I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.
~ Garry Kasparov
Art is the one thing that's the universal virtue that you can have in any class.
~ Geoff Rickly
Art is a wicked thing. It is what we are.
~ Georgia O'Keeffe
Some poems are art because of their passion.
~ Gerald Stern
No artist knows everything... but since every artist knows more than he can tell, all art is lying by omission.
~ Glen Duncan
Art is created in a state of delirium. Anyting else is the restoration of monuments. Collectors are artist that do not have a home. they have to make one for themselves.
~ Gunter Brus
I wanted to be a painter and an artist. And it's interesting that in some of my later musical works, I refer so often and associate myself with works of art.
~ Gunther Schuller
Greatness in art is always a by-product.
~ Harold Rosenberg
I just feel that art is more important than ever, that art is something that can unify us, that can make America stronger.
~ Hector Tobar
Art is a place where you can be wild. Kids-all of us-need that.
~ Helen Hunt
I'm always on the look out for 'the good image'. I'm like The Borg (you know, Star Trek) inasmuch as I assimilate everything - but I like to think I'm working in the Pop Art tradition.
~ Horace Panter
The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.
~ Irving Stone
Art is the human process that produces by the way (it is not its only or ultimate object) Secondary Belief.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.
~ Jackie DeShannon
You can't really have art without having a sense of community as art is for others to enjoy as well.
~ Jaime Zevallos
Great Art is collaborative but not democratic. It's OK to be the boss
~ Unknown
I think that's what all art is for - for people to express what it is to be human. That's the purpose of it.
~ Jarvis Cocker
The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
~ Jean Cocteau
Art is enchantment and artists have the right of spells.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother tongue.
~ Jeanette Winterson