Quotes About Inspiration

Artists by definition innocent don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back.

I wonder whether Art has a higher function than to make me feel appreciate and enjoy natural objects for their art value?

Painting is silent poetry and poetry is painting with the gift of speech

The scholar seeks the artist finds.

The song of the brush.

We must grant the artist his subject his idea his donnee: Our criticisms apply only to what he makes of it.

Conception my boy fundamental brainwork is what makes the difference in all art.

A work of art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

Art gropes it stalks like a hunter lost in the woods listening to itself and to everything around it unsure of itself waiting to pounce.

Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which throughout his lifetime he draws what he is and what he says and when the source dries up the work withers and crumbles.

Art isn't something you marry it's something you rape.

An artist has to take life as he finds it. Life by itself is formless wherever it is. Art must give it form.

An artist has been defined as a neurotic who continually cures himself with his art.

When one admires an artist it is important not to know him personally.

Art for art's sake.

Art is difficult transient is her reward.

Picasso created blank spaces through which an imagination could fly.

You do manage a somewhat religious attitude toward your art. It is a calling rather than a job.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.

My older brother Joel became an art teacher my brother Rip ultimately became a television producer and singer and actor himself.

My art teacher told me I'd be suited to graphic design, but I just couldn't, because it was what my dad had done.

'Rookie' is not your guide to Being a Teen. It is, quite simply, a bunch of writing and art we like and believe in.

When we separate music from life we get art.