Quotes About Inspiration

Art is an attempt to give substance to existence.

The art isn't there to be purchased - it's there to be enjoyed.

Art is often confused with the skill of drawing. It is the skill of making.

Making art is an act of courage. Do you know who said that?

We go see theater, we take in art because it makes us feel.

Of course, in the art class, I was the model.

I'd live in a museum if I could. I used to spend hours and hours in the Museum of Modern Art.

Probably the deepest use of music and of art is to create conscience.

I'm interested in Jackson Pollock's kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it's nothing, and yet it's incredible.

I grew up going to museums. I was privileged to discover art and artists in a very personal way.

Works of art should be stimulating. They should wake people up rather than acting like a sedative.

The most useful thing about art is it's uselessness.

I collect art books. I have hundreds and hundreds of them and they get me to start hearing things. Sometimes people look at them, but I find that visual art gets me listening, gets me hearing things.

I try to be patient. I feel like the point of art is to go down within yourself and to pop up into other people. If you're lucky, all of a sudden you're like, "whoop!" You're in other people.

Art is running away without ever leaving home.

Many artists who don't go off to art school come to New York. It's about what you learn when you're here.

Art is not a copy of the real world; one of the damn things is enough.

Despite the fact that I'm not highly skilled in any visual art, aesthetics have always played a strong role in my art, including my first albums.

The most available example of how poetry works for a poet is yourself, and yet you'll probably be the last one to know exactly how you're serving the art and how the art is serving you.

Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of it.

The mocker of Art is the mocker of Jesus.

An art school is generated only by the intensity and heat of a common pressure.

Art is what is irresistible.

That's what art is, shocking people. Sometimes shocking yourself.