Quotes About Inspiration

It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone.

To me, architecture is an art, naturally, and it isn't architecture unless it's alive. Alive is what art is. If it's not alive, it's dead, and it's not art.

I'm inspired by many things, from landscapes to textiles. Art and architecture always influence my design process.

I was always fascinated by graphic art and typography and architecture. And so I was constantly cutting things and making blocks and making buildings out of shoeboxes.

I've always been interested in art, architecture, color.

I didn't want to be like everybody else. Art was my religion.

Women are our most miraculous muse, an enchanted intangibility that encourages all art.

I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history.

If you ever have a kid who doesn't know what to do, stick him in art school. It's amazing what evolves.

Magic touches people in the way great art does. It lets them see the world with new eyes.

To me, success is making a positive difference through art - making art that affects the world and that changes the way people feel about themselves and the world.

I like my social media space to be somewhere very positive... I like to just be able to just share any images they see, or a piece of art or an item of clothing, and get to share that with the world.

Art used to be made in the name of faith. We made cathedrals, we made stained-glass windows, we made murals.

I was at Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver for four years, and I loved it.

Even when I was a little girl, I remember going to the Museum of Modern Art. I think my parents took me there once or twice. And what I really remember is the design collection.

I could, of course, have written about the film world and the jealousy there and the frequent belief that others don't have talent. But, for some reason, it just struck me to write about art.

Gardening always has been an art, essentially.

We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about.

Children depend mightily on animals for comfort, inspiration, imagination, and art. And parents have long recognized this.

Art is about imagination. When you look at a picture from Salvador Dali, that's about imagination. When you look at Picasso, that's about imagination. Doing stuff from your heart.

All art, from the paintings on the walls of cave dwellers to art created today, is autobiographical because it comes from the secret place in the soul where imagination resides.

All art is erotic.

With out art, without communicating, we wouldn't live beyond 30 because we'd be so sad and depressed.

Poetry is not an art or a branch of art: it's something more.