logo

Quotes About Inspiration

Art builds upon art, builds upon art...nothing is purely original. We're all inspired by something...or someone. It's a never-ending chain of ideas...and it's magical.
~ Unknown
Doggedness in art is no substitute for inspiration.
~ Unknown
Sometimes, when inspiration runs dry, I drink classical music until my words spill out.
~ Kamand Kojouri
Listen to the arts of kids, their hands when tied have wings.
~ Ymatruz, The Coffee Cries Foul
What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.
~ John Updike
Just give me a thousand words and you may make your own pictures.
~ Erica Goros
I work backwards with the ending in mind as I create art, stories, poems and books. Always in a process of becoming.
~ Jill Telford
The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.Piet MondrianThe Artist's Way A Spiritual Path to Greater Creativity by Julia Cameron
~ Piet Mondrian
I'm collector of stuff that people make with their brain. I keep them in little jars and I take them out and play with them sometimes too. The stuff, not the people.
~ Unknown
Art is a space in which freedom tests its wings.
~ Marty Rubin
Artists, by their free expressions, encourage others to be free. This is the quality that makes works of art enduring.
~ Marty Rubin
When your life is stormy, take a refuge to a port: To music or to literature, in short, to art, to any kind of art!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Art is a place where tragedy meets beauty. An artist is someone who creates the most beautiful things of his life when his soul starts bleeding.
~ Akshay Vasu
Creativity takes courage.
~ Henri Matisse
He took his pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And that's what good music does. It speaks to you. It changes you.
~ Hannah Harrington, Saving June
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart..
~ Pablo Casals
If your heart is broken, make art with the pi
~ Shane L. Koyczan
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is thereby a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.
~ Ansel Adams
Art is science made clear.
~ Jean Cocteau
You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.
~ Maria Callas
Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist
~ Rene Magritte
If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.
~ Edward Hopper
To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk.
~ Edward Weston
True art awakens theExtraordinaryOvation
~ Unknown