Quotes About Inspiration

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

The Holy Spirit gives freedom from the past, joy for the moment, and faith for the future.

There is an argument for believing that the entire process of writing a piece of fiction is simply a thinly-controlled and highly-internalised nervous breakdown designed, with a bit of luck, to produce something worthwhile at the end.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.

We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.

In my old age, I'll be in L.A.

I go and see anything that's visually new, any technology that's about picture-making. The technology won't make the pictures different, but someone using it will.

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.

I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.

I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.

To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.

I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.

It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty,you know you're an artist.

Artists, real artists, have to work. They can't be hedonists. Really good painters are always working. The world is such a marvelous place. You have to look and to work. That's exactly why Van Gogh was such a great artist: total commitment. That's what you need.

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.

The victory is not gained by the men at arms, who manage the pike and the sword; but by the trumpeters, drummers, and musicians of the army.

Nothing is more admirable, than the readiness, with which the imagination suggests its ideas, and presents them at the very instant, in which they become necessary or useful.

when the subject takes precedence, you not only start the journey towards a personal style but also you discover the sheer joy of visually responding to the world. It solves a lot of doubts, clears away all confusion. The

The first thing to do is carry a notebook and during quiet times or as the thought occurs to you, compile a list of anything that really interests you. In other words, write a list of subjects which fascinate you without regard to photography.