Quotes About Inspiration

the holy Scriptures…are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus" (2 Timothy 3:15).

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. (2 Timothy 3:16-17)

if God wanted to communicate with us through images, he could have inspired the prophets and apostles to draw pictures into the Bible. But there is not even one.

Man cannot know God by his own wisdom and power, but only by God's self-disclosure, which he delivered through the prophets and the apostles.

As long as a person denies that the Bible is itself divine revelation, it remains nothing more than an ordinary book, so that he would hesitate to offer it complete reverence, as if it is possible to excessively adore it.

Beauty is the radiance of truth, and the frangrance of goodness.

I'm extremely profane, unconsciously so, when I see something great for the first time; I don't know why, but beauty and profanity are related to me in the same way. It may be that I want to think of art in the vernacular, but I have no control over what comes out of my mouth when my eyes take in great beauty...it might just be the reason I avoid going to museums with elderly ladies.

Sometimes you read a passage by a great writer, and you know what he says and how he says it will always be, for you, the only possible way it could be. Less often a painter will describe an event in a way that fits into your interpretation of that event so perfectly that it becomes the event itself.

Art is excitement which if we can't create ourselves, we can at least, through love of it, make available to others.

In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

I never get tired of the blue sky.

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

When I have a terrible need of — shall I say the word — religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a church warden, but he must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

Do not quench your inspiration and your inmagination do not become the slave of your model.

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.

So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world.

There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.

The sunflower is mine, in a way.

In spite of everything, I shall rise again; I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.