Quotes About Inspiration

Immature ists imitate. Mature ists steal.

Timing has a lot to with art.

Movies are art and the spirit of the movie depends on the creators.

Poetry should only occupy the idle.

The ordinary is ultimately what moves us most deeply. It's what touches us, and it's what we most recognize, in great moments of art.

I can concentrate on my art.

All art, in spite of the struggles of some critics to prove otherwise, is based on emotion and projects emotion.

What's becoming very obvious to me is that fashion is art.

My guitar player calls the process of writing lyrics based on another story, "filling up the well" when you can get inspiration from other people's art without stealing, more being influenced by it.

Breakthroughs, in art, in culture, in personality, come when tackling the unexpected.

I went to a private school in Singapore and they had an incredible arts program. Every day I was doing something artistic.

I knew what infinity was. Being a previous art student, I knew about some art concepts.

If it's bad art, it's bad religion, no matter how pious the subject.

All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs.

Arts in education is especially important to me. Inspired teachers in our education system is crucial in developing inspired human beings.

Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.

All true art must help the soul to realize its inner self.

My main influence are the other members of the Royal Art Lodge, we've drawn together enough that we can't help but influence each other.

The characters [of The Tempest] have always been favorites of mine. It is one of his meditations on art - what it does.

Art to me was a state: it didn't need to be an accomplishment.

I loved everything. I read everything. Art and poetry and literature and trash and sci fi. I didn't know what I would become yet and I needed to read to figure it out.

When art find no temple open, it takes refuge in the workshop.

Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.

when you are dealing with art, any kind of art, your pleasure in making it is what matters most.