Quotes About Inspiration

I expect art to make me scream, art to reveal soul.

Alexander Pope once wrote that the theater aspires to wake the soul by gentle strokes of art - to raise the genius and to mend the heart.

Remember, the early '60s in London was something - which must have been like Berlin in the '30s when the arts flourished. You didn't have the differences in class, and so on.

My mother and father were interested in the arts.

The great artist takes what he needs.

Twitter is not art. But it inspires me in the way that art used to inspire me.

One day I would like to have my own art show.

When studio art started being seen as important, I joined Colab, and then I became very involved.

If there's any literary ability in a feller, getting fired out of a good government job will bring it out.

People should practice an art in order to make their souls grow and not to make money or become famous. Paint a picture. Write.

Money is completely boring to me. It means nothing, except it feeds my art. Every penny I make goes back into the Haus of GaGa. My Haus of GaGa is something like Andy Warhol's Factory.

Any idealism is a proper subject for art.

When I see a beautiful piece of art, it inspires me to be creative.

It's wonderful that nothing you write is ever going to be as beautiful as what's in your head, because that gap is where the art can enter and begin to stretch its limbs.

I rarely listen to the music for the sheer pleasure. I'm listening for the tool, I'm listening for the instrument, I'm listening for the art.

I'm so in awe of what visual artists do and I do understand the differences of what visual artists do. I have a small art collection I hope to expand.

All art has this characteristic-it unites people.

Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again within himself and expresses it by certain external signs.

How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.

Men talk about art, and artists make art, but should artists talk?

For first you write a sentence, And then you chop it small; Then mix the bits and sort them out Just as they chance to fall: The order of the phrases makes no difference at all.

The artist is justified by his art.

Art must not stop at the level of pleasing eyes.

Our jobs as artists is to make sure our art tells a real story and let people see themselves in these characters. It's about having a conversation about being better people.