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Quotes About Inspiration

Sometimes we do grip the concert in a human head, and so hold it that in a way we get a record of it into paint, but the vision and expressing of one day will not do for the next.
~ Robert Henri
You can be taught to write – you can't be taught to be an artist
~ John Geddes
You can not teach art, it's not to be taught, but felt and lived, or else it is naught.
~ Sabina Nore
For any creative thought to be contagious, it must first be worthy of a sneeze.
~ Ryan Lilly
For an artist is not a consumer, as our commercials urge us to be. An artist is a nourisher and a creator who knows that during the act of creation there is collaboration. We do not create alone.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
We are all born artists. The nature generally doesn't discriminate among newborns with respect to art. Yet most of us try very hard as we grow, without knowing, to stop being artists.
~ Pawan Mishra
I paint the stuff I see when my eyes are closed
~ Unknown
The present is only faced in any generation by the artist.
~ Marshall McLuhan
Design is an art, creative artist must have a beautiful mind
~ Unknown
If an artist is not only he who sings or paints, but he who express himself by words or drawing then I can consider myself as one.
~ Amen Muffler
If an artist is not only he who sings or paints, but he whow express himself by words or illustrations then I can consider myself as one.
~ Amen Muffler
In many times, after creating a piece of work I want to stand up and applaud.
~ Shawn Lukas
A paint brush is the only tool I use extensively in my works, to push paint on canvas and conduct melodies. And that's exactly what Garden Avenue is, and all of my projects after that.
~ Shawn Lukas
For me, a paint brush is the only tool I use extensively in my works, to push paint on canvas and conduct melodies. And that's exactly what Garden Avenue is, and all of my projects after that.
~ Shawn Lukas
Artist is not human, but humanity.
~ Raheel Farooq
The advantage of having an artistic tradition is that the younger artist could see an organic link between the real life of one's country and its art work which is a sublimation of that life.
~ Unknown
Art is a passion or it is nothing
~ Unknown
Art is ment to travel from your heart to your head and out through your fingers...
~ Unknown
Success or Failure, there should always be a Drive to Keep on Creating.
~ Henry Johnson Jr
Me: "All right, but you said we had to put emotion into our art. I don't know what that means. I don't know what I'm supposed to feel.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
My personal philosophy is that you do art to experience emotion that you don't have the luxury of experiencing in real life.
~ Unknown
The brush must draw by itself. This cannot happen if one does not practice constantly. But neither can it happen if one makes an effort.
~ Alan W. Watts
I've never thought of writing as the mere arrangement of words on the page but the attempted embodiment of a vision
~ Unknown
Artists must remain in a state of awe to remain artists.
~ Marty Rubin