Quotes About Inspiration

Art that only comes from the head isn't any good. Watch any good musician and you'll see what I mean.

Take a quart of nature, boil it down to a pint, and the residue is art.

It sounds kind of flighty, filmmaker-y, but I believe films are a piece of art. They are meant to be what they're meant to be, and sometimes the artist is informed by the film of what it needs to be.

I know that sounds a little bit corny, but I've found some solace in that. I hope art can continue to do that for people, I really do.

I always knew that I'd probably do something in the arts.

You know, I feel like my job is to write a book. Then filmmakers come and they make a movie. And they're two really different art forms.

I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don't do that so much anymore.

Jazz is the art of thinking out loud.

Art transcends politics this weekend.

I'm really into California art from the '60s.

The artist always has been and still is a being somewhat apart from the rest of humanity.

There is still some art in pop music. But it can't happen if you're not inspired.

To me one of the amazing technologies of writing is the way it can listen in on thoughts. I don't feel that that's natural to other art forms in the same way.

Cooking certainly has some of the elements of an art form.

If you take pictures does that make you an art thief?

The arts can be a great way to bring people together. I don't preach from the stage. I try to stay positive on solutions.

It seems to me that art has lost its connection to spirit.

I'm very much involved with Asian art and its theory and practice, mainly Chinese because that was quite sophisticated. I tend to look at that more than I look the Western.

Western art has a certain relationship to nature.

To me, my parents are my mom and dad, and we were able as kids to do a lot of cool things. Just being part of that family definitely brought out and cultivated the creative arts in us.

You are the artist and the art.

Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art.

I think art must be the place where you are protected from the logic of the outside world.

A society that forgets about art risks loslng its soul.