Quotes About Inspiration

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, and I know of no substitute for the force and beauty of it's process.

A common defect of modern art study is that too many students do not know why they draw.

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

You must write as if Dostoyevsky himself will be reading your novel, and Shakespeare will be acting it out.

Art does not reproduce what we see. It makes us see.

Sometimes an artist's first invention is herself.

The lonesome and desperate kids out there, that pain will translate to magic perhaps.

Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with its many chords. The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically.

I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up in the morning and see the light.

every good artist paints what he is

When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best -- that is inspiration.

If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Art is a picture of the spirit.

There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph, or a painting.

...What I depend on is a vigorous audience that can discover sweetness and light, beauty and truth, beyond the ability of the artist, on his own, to create them.

It comforted him because it could not be called suffering if it was a sign of Art.

An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear.

Art is nothing more than creating an emotion in your own form.

He wrote me a note to say we would create art together and we would make it, with or without the rest of the world.

You know one thing that Mr. Powell taught me? He taught me that sometimes, art can make you forget everything else all around you. That's what are can do.

Don't we all know that art is dangerous. You play it - then you live it.

I looked on astounded as from his ordinary life he made his art. We were both ordinary men, he and I. Yet from the ordinary he created Legends--and I from Legends created only the ordinary!

..if I dont do something on the grand scale, it is that my genius is altogether imitative, and that I have nor recently encountered any very striking models of grandeur.

But maybe that's how it is with art. You suffer, and in the end, everyone thinks it's cool.