Quotes About Inspiration

Art is fire plus algebra.

Makebelieve is a writer's best friend.

What a face this girl possessed!—could I not gaze at it every day I would need to recreate it through painting, sculpture, or fatherhood until a second such face is born.

i want to never settle for anything less than my soul on paper.

Paris and Fashion. Books and Art. What would one be ... without the other?

There are two characters in me: a doodler and a tuner. And the only thing that makes me go crazy is when they both fight for their turn.

if you have the tools but do not have the visual concept, the tools do not work

Photography is not a lens but eye, not a business but art

The canvas is the door to another dimension. The paintbrush is the key.

Art is unpredictable.

Painting calmed the chaos that shook my soul.

Philosophers tell you what they think. Artists show you.

There are no greater or lesser arts, only greater or lesser artists.

If you wish to make good art, then you must believe you already do. Otherwise, you will never be good enough.

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

Thanks to my art, I now know who I am.

Art does what reality cannot.

With the manipulation of abstract symbols, an artist can send you information without sound, change your feelings and, sometimes, even beliefs. Artists convey the unspeakable. Artists inspire.

My child has to be an artist, because conceiving her will be the best artmy body has ever accommodated.

Kenji Mizoguchi is to the cinema what Bach is to music, Cervantes is to literature, Shakespeare is to theatre, Titian is to painting: the very greatest.

There are no rules. That is how art is born.

(Ars longa vita brevis.) Art is long life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

Artists are the antennae of the race but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.