Quotes About Inspiration

I think we [with Riccardo Tisci] share a sensibility about art - we pull from the ancient future.

Sometimes people save the best part of themselves for their art.

To open up the new, to look back on the old may bring forth like discoveries in the practice of art.

Art has more ego to it than what I do.

You grow and evolve and as you do that, your art hopefully reflects that change and that growth.

But who said art has to cost money? And therefore, who says artists have to make money?

I cannot live without art: it excites me, it challenges me, and it leads me to the next thing.

Ideas and art are the possibility of an answer tomorrow.

You could say science also is an art.

If there is to be art, if there is to be any aesthetic doing and seeing, one physiological condition is indispensable: frenzy.

That is an artist as I would have an artist be, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art--panemet Circen.

Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a phenomenon.

Art depends upon the inexactitude of sight.

Anatoli Tarasov, the guy that created the Soviet style of play, was a visionary. He was a creative thinker. He studied ballet and chess and art and read a lot.

Listen not to the critics who put their own dreams on the shelf.

Even though I don't sing any more, singing was my first education in the arts, and it's clear to me that my training as a musician also shaped me as a writer.

I began my career in the arts as a model, before adding my hats as an actress, a photographer, a journalist and now, filmmaker. I've seen and experienced it all.

There is no Art made without power, and there is no reason for Art to be made except for power.

I don't see art as entertainment.

Unlike the expressionists, I have never been interested in renewing the world through the vehicle of art.

As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.

The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.

I like Simon Cowell - look at how many great artists have come out of the U.K. because of him.

What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most?