Quotes About Inspiration

I feel compelled to make art that on one hand reflects and sometimes almost creates like a sense of comfort when confronted with the strangeness of the world.

If it takes you seven years to write each novel, you need a patron. And I would rather have my corporate self as my patron than any arts council or bestower of grants.

I really want to make art. I want to create something that's going to have a lasting impact.

Art, if it is art, will develop in whatever circumstances it is placed.

The things that I look at include Renaissance art. I'm obsessed with churches and paintings of saints.

The art of land warfare is an art of genius, of inspiration. On the sea nothing is genius or inspiration; everything is positive or empiric.

All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.

It doesn't matter what it is, it doesn't matter if you have training or a background in it. Just create something, and lend a piece of yourself to that art.

The highest triumph of art, is the truest presentation of nature.

Music is the sole art which evokes nostalgia for the future.

I don't think it would be fun to write after inhaling art fumes. (What are art fumes?) No, I just make stuff up. It's easier that way.

I have a healthy view of what one can do with art.

I will say that art may well be the only thing that lasts, so I guess it's worth trying.

Art was always for me an escape and a way to relate to the world around me.

When I was a teenager, my dad watched my films and told me I could go to art college and study animation. He made me see that I could do this for a living.

He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write.

If I wasn't an actress I'd definitely want to do something in the arts and something that was very creative.

Choose to give your creative art priority over other things. You can do it.

Creative expression is not just a means of getting attention, although some have approached art that way. Think of art as a way of connecting, of sharing your insights with others.

When I was three or four, I was really good at drawing and painting, and everyone used to say, "You're going to go to art college." I didn't really know what that meant.

The process of art evolving is always one which has fascinated me.

Art has such a transforming power. It can really take over your mind once you allow it to.

The Art Deco movement, architecture from that period and sort of the industrial aesthetic from that period. Art Deco meets tribal kind of thing. All that is my primal inspiration.

I use whatever media I think will best express my ideas and therefore I don't have a lot invested in the idea of photography specifically. I am more interested in Art.