Quotes About Inspiration

Great emotion always tends to become rhythmic, and out of that tendency the forms of art have been evolved. Art becomes artificial only when the forms take precedence over the emotion.

To be able to do art, it was a luxury to me.

I truly believe the art's larger than the artist. Who cares about John Steinbeck? I care about the Joad family.

An artist cannot get along without a public; and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.

Only the poor can create art.

It's art that's taught me to think and to write.

Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it.

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations.

Photography has been a passion of mine since I was 15. After my kids were born I found myself incorporating my photography into different art endeavors and from there it just blossomed.

The tricky thing about being a writer, or about being any kind of artist, is that in addition to making art you also have to make a living.

He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own.

Art simply can't be stopped.

Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you.

timeliness is an enemy to art.

Art can do much, but this maxim's most sure/A weak or wounded brain admits no cure.

Artists are meant to be madmen, to disturb and shock us.

artists often lie behind on the field long after the art combine, the broad-bladed harvester of informed criticism, has mowed, bailed, and stored the crop.

I am a hobbyist photographer so I relate to the visual arts that way, but Im not a painter.

I loved music and art, combining the two seemed like a natural match.

I was buying old records a lot in my early teenage years and I was mostly drawn toward the artwork even more than the band itself. I loved the way the art set the scene for the music.

All science touches on art; all art has its scientific side.

Film and art are close together.

We should comfort ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages-stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us.

Hunger is the teacher of the arts and the bestower of invention. -Magister artis ingenique largitor Venter