Quotes About Inspiration

Fine art, poetry, that kind of thing, elevates a nation.

The artist is called a creator.

I see a flower. It gives me a sensation of the beautiful. I wish to paint it. And as soon as I wish to paint it I see the whole subject - flower - changed. It is now an art problem to resolve.

Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.

There's nothing about interdependence that would keep somebody from making art.

Most art in the world does not have a capital 'A,' but is a way of turning everyday objects into personal expressions.

I believe that art has incredible power.

I actually build my dreams around the dancers I've got in my company.

When you have the intuition that there is something which is there, but out of the reach of your physical world, art and religion are the only means to get to it.

I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.

In reality, however, an artist is a product of art

We're writers. What do we do? We tell stories. We make up stories. We create art.

fiction and lies are both works of creative art, and creation always reveals the creator.

I was a real art freak when I was a teenager.

...I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture.

A painting in an interior spreads joy around it by the colors, which calm us.

Creation is the artist's true function; where there is no creation there is no art.

Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one's self to an idea.

All the arts are based on the senses. What they do for the person who practices them, and also the persons interested in them, is make that particular sense more active and more acute.

Ardent yet chill and formal, how I ache to tempt a chisel as a sculptor.

Everything is inspiring! It could be fine art or a conversation I have with somebody!

My art has gained some high value.

What does drunkenness not accomplish? It unlocks secrets, confirms our hopes, urges the indolent into battle, lifts the burden from anxious minds, teaches new arts.

The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase.