Quotes About Inspiration

Art is an effort to make you walk a half an inch above ground.

Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries say, it's not great art for you.

Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.

I never went to art school and I never thought of going to an art school. It was just a way of manifesting these ideas I had. Ideas came to me that I needed to express.

If you think art is a competitive forum, then you're going to stop doing it if you're not good. But if it's not competitive, it's something that you'll keep doing.

What I say is that we're capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response.

While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.

[Shanghai Biennale] has been my attitude for as long as I've been practicing art and other cultural-related activities.

Without freedom there is no art.

In art, I think it's not useful to be a professional of the profession. It will not give you something new.

I am not a commercial industry creator. I don't believe in making art to make money.

I do believe - and I know I shouldn't - that art transcends money and success and any of that. You can still do it if you're not clinging to the notion of nobility.

Despite all that I know rationally, and everything that I can put into words, I can say that I have difficulty giving up the notion of the nobility of art.

Rilke said that art can come only out of inner necessity. I write because I must. Or because I cannot not write.

We will die, but art will remain.

Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.

Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.

Art makes nothing happen in a way that makes something happen.

Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help

Listening to great music and art inspires me and recharges me.

I actually got into music because of art and because of skateboarding: All those graphics and punk bands and fanzines - they were glued together in my brain.

You can choose to be mad in a negative way where it fuels you to do mean, hateful things, or you can let your madness fuel your art and channel it in a positive way.

It is my hope that photography may fall in line with all the other arts and with her infinite possibilities, do things strange and more fascinating than the most fantastic dreams.

It would nice to live in a world where art can just be art!