Quotes About Inspiration

I have things in my head that are not like what anyone taught me — shapes and ideas so near to me, so natural to my way of being and thinking.

In the fullness of artistic life there is, and remains, and will always come back at times, that homesick longing for the truly ideal life that can never come true.

I see art in everything. Your shoes. That car. This coffee cup. It's art if you see it as art.

I must have flowers, always and always.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine

[N]othing is more easily corrupted than an artist.

Art never comes from happiness

art is never finished, only abandoned

You need feeling, emotion, to create. You can't create out of indifference.

What keeps my heart awake is colorful silence.

..it has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don't know the artistic side of a painting.

Artists strive for perfection. But what they often fail to see is that the beauty, the humanity, lies within the flaws.

Edsel is the artist in our family. Art is something I know nothing about.

Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Good artists exist simply in what they make and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

One of the most difficult things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.

When they asked Michelangelo how he made his statue of David he is reported to have said "It is easy. You just chip away the stone that doesn't look like David."

We should comport ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages - stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us.

Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.

I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art.

Art fuels the fire inside me.

I create beautiful art, so I can look back on the life my body fell short of in such a way that it brings me peace.

Before, I could only guess of who I was. Now, thanks to my art, I know who I am

Solitary walks are great for getting new ideas. It's like you're in a video game and you pick up idea coins on the way.