Quotes About Inspiration

The Painter who seeks popularity in Art closes the door upon his own genius.

Being surrounded by artistic and musical beauty soothes the soul, bringing both quiet calm and creative inspiration. . . .

As far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the twentieth century is intimately bound up with the experience of intoxification.

What has reason to do with the art of painting?

Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every abstract form, from all that is of the brain only.

How can the arts overcome the slow dying of men's hearts that we call progress ?

The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.

The writer's only responsibility is to his art.

True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be.

O, had I but followed the arts!

Although my everyday artwork is tattoo oriented, I definitely do not try to limit my art or art mediums.

Much of my writing has taken the form of a pilgrimage: to sacred places that represent the best of America, to musicians and other artists who represent the best of their art.

Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.

In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.

Art for me is like breathing. When I stop breathing, what happens?

Artists are magicians and I definitely think John Lennon was a Wizard.

Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.

The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.

the way to create art is to burn and destroyordinary concepts and to substitute themwith new truths that run down from the top of the headand out of the heart

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way... things I had no words for.