Quotes About Inspiration

Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.

The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.

If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.

The quality of a painter depends on the amount of the past he carries with him.

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.

The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? No.

My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general, if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

To me there is no past or future in art. If a work cannot always live in the present, it must not be considered art at all.

Art washes away from the soul, the dust of everyday living.

Art washes away the dust of everyday life.

Give me a museum, and I'll fill it.

God is really only another artist, he made the elephat, giraffe and cat. He has no real style but keeps trying new ideas.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape...

The artist is a recepticle for the emotions that come from all over the place from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Everything you can imagine is real.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.