Quotes About Inspiration

Art is not disposable.

Art is a self-replicating force.

Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not.

Art isn't just paint and music, art is breaking glass and the sounds we make without realizing.

True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.

True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature.

The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Art is a mediator of the unspeakable.

One of the challenges to our nation today is overcoming the notion that art is kind of a nice-to-have, when in reality art is a need-to-have.

Art is a conduit toward human needs and perception.

Art is a journey of discovery.

If you can draw the stone rightly, everything within reach of art is also within yours.

What's beautiful about art is that it circumscribes a space, a physical and mental space. If you try to put the entire world into every page, you turn out chaos.

Perhaps art is simply an organism's reaction against its retentive limitations.

Just as our historical beginnings are utterly mysterious-why are we born? why when and as we are?-so too are the beginnings of works of art and of "artists.

Art is one of the few careers without a mandatory retirement age.

Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly.

The art is just really mysterious. If I understood it more, maybe I would write more.

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

Teaching is performance art.

I think it was a matter of, like, I'm not going to have my kids in these wild streets. Both my twin brother and I were in art school together.

I was 11 when I was first introduced to live drawing classes and going to art school.

I don't think rock n' roll songwriters should worry about art. I don't think it comes into it...as far as I'm concerned, Art is just short for Arthur.