Quotes About Inspiration

I think masturbating is a really important function in art. People don't like to hear that kind of stuff, but it's true.

I'm an artist. I'm interested in how art gets made.

I believe that every artist, in one way or another, is a wounded person. It's not natural to make art.

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.

My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students.

I was engaged in all the required courses of math and geometry, but the area that I blossomed in was the art program.

I'm really happy with all the art that was inspired by religion, and I think I'd be tickled to little tiny pieces if art in the future was inspired by other things.

Every piece of technology, every piece of art, basically everything manmade comes from an idea.

In every art the desire to practice it precedes both the full ability to do so and the possession of something worthwhile to express by its means.

He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Art has a unique capacity to take one or other facet of the message and translate it into colors, shapes and sounds which nourish the intuition of those who look and listen.

I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully, eventually cut through all of the nonsense that is out there.

The value of art lies in its power to increase our moral force or establish its heightening influence.

And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way.

Winner gave me my bread and Russell gave me my art.

Music is the perfect type of art.

It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

Belief of some sort is the lifeblood of Art.

I don't really see art as structured by logic.

I want to create amazing art and content that inspires people to want to be the best versions of themselves everyday, and never let anyone (even themselves) hold them back.

I also think there's something about dance, music and the arts that transcends all other types of communication and expression.

It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision.

Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales.

Virtue runs before the muse, and defies her skill; she is rapt and doth refuse to wait a painter's will.