Quotes About Inspiration

Realism and art cannot live together.

Journalism encourages haste ... and haste is the enemy of art.

I want to be an art-hero - I want to change the form of the novel.

I enjoy all mediums, and I have to say, music is the medium that first made me understand how powerful art could be.

Everybody has a direct view of the person "behind" the art, so there is going to be a certain amount of awareness of who is making songs. But I like paintings where you can see the brush-strokes.

Art should look like art, trees and flowers and people, not weird shapes and splotches of color all smeared together.

When there were financial difficulties they still managed to provide us with music and art lessons.

Recessions are hard on people, but they are not hard on Art.

All art comes from other art, and all immigrants come from other places.

To me, the building [of Museum of Arts and Design]now looks like a lovely jewel box, and the tiled façade reminds me of a heat shield.

In the arts there are many right answers.

You don't have to go to New York and you don't have to go to LA or London. Go somewhere cheap. Go somewhere with free art museums and then just go to art museums.

When I sing, I have to live in that moment, so my audience can feel that. That is my reason for doing art.

The artist had captured a moment that went on suggesting other moments in the mind of the beholder. This, Timmon told me, was what every painter, every singer, every craftsman sought to create.

The arts and humanities are vastly more important in troubled times.

The arts are the signature of a nation.

I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it.

What I'm good at is making art.

Mozart is a human incarnation of the divine force of creation.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this account it unites so readily with religion.

It's easier and sociabler to talk technique than it is to make art.

I think art can reflect tragedy.

I feel like I've gotten to the point where when I get tired of making art I can make a smooth transition into making music and vice versa. There is always something to do.