Quotes About Inspiration

We need grief as a precursor to emotional refreshment, and so consume it vicariously in somewhat titrated but powerful enough form through engagement with the arts.

All art points to others with whom the writer argues about what is . . . He must have models with which to agree . . . or outright oppose . . . for Nature seems to remain silence.

I'm interested in art, and I think about the process of making art. It's part of my personality, my experience of the world, so it ends up in the movies. It's where my head is.

You have to experiment with different mediums and things around you [making art].

I liked museums but I wanted to be a dancer, I wanted to go into performing arts, or be a writer.

My mother was the most creative, fantastic person and would come up with great things for us to do. She'd buy art supplies and all of us would sit around painting. I was lucky.

Art does not explain.

If it looks like art, chances are it's somebody else's art.

I was an 'Ironman' fan. It was in the '70s. I definitely liked comics and drew a lot of panels on my notebook when I should have been studying - probably why I ended up in the arts.

Reading and writing... are exciting. The most exciting things I can think of. And now, as I reflect... I have to say that I've been lucky in that I'm amused by what I do - sufficiently amused.

I've always loved movies, art and clothes.

My books and other works are my legacy, and it's a great comfort to know that mine is a legacy of pleasure for other people.

I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.

Chemistry: that most excellent child of intellect and art.

It's not art for art's sake, it's art for my sake.

I think that's why art prevails: because it helps people in a fairly intangible, magical way feel more connected to each other.

It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of making art.

A lot of people who get into any art form have some form of mental..something in their head which is unstable

Give honour unto Luke Evangelist; For he it was (the aged legends say) Who first taught Art to fold her hands and pray.

Writers are idiots with Underwoods.

Uncertainty is the essential, inevitable and all-pervasive companion to your desire to make art

Something about making art has to do with overcoming things, giving us a clear opportunity for doing things in ways we have always known we should do them.

I think making any art requires a certain degree of high anxiety and total abandon.

The realm of classical music is so vast - not only in terms of style but of era, age and the purposes for which it was composed - it is an enormous art form.