Quotes About Inspiration

You know, when I was younger I was into all kinds of art - drawing, painting, all that stuff. But I played drums, played piano forever.

An artist should use freely whatever materials he pleases.

By using formula in filmmaking we are admitting that film is not art.

I need to be creative, make art every day for my own sanity.

I must say that the first person to realise that I was talented in art was my mother.

Sometimes, I even learn new techniques from my students. Although I am still a student at the Art Institute, I think that I have learnt a lot from the classes that I have already taken.

I am really enjoying media arts and digital painting.

Poetry is a totally different art than film.

The works of the great artists are silent books of eternal truths.

Books are my one luxury. I have a lot of large coffee-table-size art books, in the shelves above my bed, about people like Warhol, Basquiat and Velasquez.

Craft can get you through ninety percent of a piece, but it's art that carries you at the end.

Art isn't and shouldn't be responsible. If it is, it isn't functioning as art.

I think the arts are very important for children growing up.

Directing is a tremendous art.

As far as art and filmmaking is concerned, I don't see there's any separation; it's just one continuous thing.

Art Modell was a visionary, a deal-maker and a friend. And he possessed a marvelous sense of humor.

Still to this day, I am deeply satisfied when watching a guitar player who is connected with their art and instrument. GuitarTV helps you tap into that connection, and to each other.

There's obviously always danger in making music or art for art's sake. Even as Christians we can be guilty of that, being more about the art than the Artist who gave us this gift.

I think about art a lot only in two contexts. One is narrative... The other thing that I'm interested in, which is tangential, but not unrelated... All art to me is about problem solving.

A great artist ... takes what he did not make and makes of it something that only he can make.

High achievements in art, music, etc., are the results of concentration.

In art, interest must be centred on the principal theme.

In fact, every day I'll read a chapter of some art book. I don't know why. It's just a habit.

I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.