Quotes About Inspiration

The survival of my own ideas may not be as important as a condition I might create for others' ideas to be realized.

Indeed, the future is signalled in the past, but time has to pass to see it. Art is the witness.BLOG post-Perpetual Beginning-November 14 2011

I'm completely aware of Matisse and what he said, that painters must begin by cutting out their tongues.

I set about seeking a thread, a theme, a style, in the realm of legend. Something that might allow me to give free rein to my juvenile sense of romanticism and the beautiful image.

Art is long, life is short.

A pianist is a painter of music

Seeing beautiful art is like feeling kisses from angels all over your face.

Art is the medium through which new thoughts, perspectives, and attitudes are brought into the world.

Art is not what you see but what you make others see

Pain fuels artistry and creativity. Harness your suffering and become a master of your art.

Creating is like the oxygen in my air.

Art is the product of an imperfect world. In an ideal world, art would not exist.

Creative freedom is prosperity for the soul.

Art is the product of an imperfect world. In a perfect world, art would not exist.

What is more boundless than imagination? What is more primordial than the art of creation? To create and be creative is perhaps our most essential nature.

It just feels like meeting him again was like seeing a blank paper ready to be sketched, a different idea to be drawn.

The value is not in the art, whether there are more artists or less artists, the value depends on it.

Don't go to a museum with a destination. Museums are wormholes to other worlds. They are ecstasy machines.

The impossible is what we achieve through art.

Art helps you connect to the world, not escape from it. That is the difference between art and entertainment.

No one ever claimed that creating art was simple. But they failed to mention the mess.

It is not sufficient for artistic expressions to serve as "signposts declaring what it is to be fully human." They should impart a vision of what it can be to become divine.

Because art is a scream, even when it hides itself somewhere, you will find it!

My response to stress is just as complex as my artwork.