Inspirational Quotes

It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely troublesome.

~ Plutarch

There’s a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email and iChat. That’s crazy. Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. You run into someone, you ask what they’re doing, you say ‘wow,’ and soon you’re cooking up all sorts of ideas.

~ Steve Jobs

Though a living cannot be made from art, art makes life worth living. It makes starving, living.

~ John Sloan

A deliberate plan is not always necessary for the highest art, it emerges.

~ Paul Johnson

The flow. Yeah. Knowing you could step on the court and make it happen. You practiced, sure. But then, when you walked out there, you could just go. You could flow, that was it: you created and you didn't totally know how. You just knew you could, so you did. It wasn't thinking and it wasn't imitating somebody else's moves, though you always looked carefully when you watched good players play. But when you played... it was something you couldn't explain. Neal used to know. It didn't come from thinking about it.

~ Doug Wilhelm

There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it.

~ Henry Moore

I know I will always be attracted to the unknown as it does often verify what I am or what else I could be.

~ Hollace M. Metzger

Art cannot be bought or sold. It can only be created or destroyed.

~ Iimani David

I've been 40 years discovering that the queen of all colors was black.

~ Pierre-Auguste Renoir

gurl,if you were a flower I will plant you in heart,watering you with my blood and cover you with my body.

~ Knight Mayor

Form follows emotion

~ Walter Isaacson

Inking is meditation in liquid form...

~ J.h. Everett

Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some ... Jean Anouilh, The Rehearsal

~ Kate Taylor

The market follows the artist. The artist does not follow the market.

~ Iimani David

Drawing is the art of being able to leave an accurate record of the experience of what one isn't, of what one doesn't know. A great drawer is either confirming beautifully what is commonplaceor probing authoritatively the unknown.::: Brett Whiteley :::

~ Brett Whiteley

Art cannot save the world, but it does help you understand the world inside of you.

~ Krist Pauwels

I could never be a Communist. I could never be regimented. I could never be told what to write.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Intellectual work sometimes, spiritual work certainly, artistic work always — these are forces that fall within its grasp, forces that must travel beyond the realm of the hour and the restraint of the habit. Nor can the actual work be well separated from the entire life. Like the knights of the Middle Ages, there is little the creatively inclined person can do but to prepare himself, body and spirit, for the labor to come — for his adventures are all unknown. In truth, the work itself is the adventure. And no artist could go about this work, or would want to, with less than extraordinary energy and concentration. The extraordinary is what art is about.

~ Mary Oliver

Creativity is a state of mind, a way of being, and it comes from a sacred place within.

~ Bonnie Kelso

You draw characters speaking loud and clear but you’re not hearing them.

~ Basma Salem

When life, inspiration, and pen meet.

~ Valdas Partee

I believe, that creating is a joyful activity as well as a meaningful suffer, and thus, it is an integral part of the human nature.

~ Gabor Gürtler

One of the most beautiful things to do is to paint darkness, which nevertheless has light in it.

~ Vincent Van Gogh

Art that most inspires are the ones that pay attention to aspects of the subconscious condition that we are too busy to notice.

~ Vd.

Choose only one master — Nature.

~ Rembrandt

Let's make room for the kind of art that challenges us, pushes boundaries, stirs and inspires, and takes our breath away with its uniqueness. Let's reconnect with our artist souls and trust that if we make good art, we'll make good money.

~ Teresa R. Funke

With a true masterpiece, there are no words required. Discourse is rendered redundant. That's why the work of a master transcends all notions of education, of class. It rises above the onlooker's understanding of what is considered good or bad, or right or wrong in the world of art. With the artist who has achieved mastery, skill, experience and knowledge are transparent, leaving only the message for all to see.

~ Jacqueline Winspear

I painted for the eyes, and wrote prose for the ears… Between those senses lay the mind and soul… I enjoyed connecting with people’s deepest thoughts, their hopes and dreams… My pen and brush were tools to achieve my artistic desired effects.

~ J.r. Ortiz

Make your life a work of art and you will never die.

~ Maria Elena

We stand on the edge of national metamorphosis armed with hope and lengthy dreams, and the desire to leave the mistakes of the past far, far behind us. Some wake to a blessed plague of amnesia hoping never to recover the damage that was done. Some keep marching forward feeling the heavy ache of everything they wish to change about themselves and our nation dragging behind them like a long, prolonged shadow. And still others shine above the sun, sparkling like raging cosmonauts, propelled by the strength and power of their pathological optimism. I tend to slingshot between all 3 of these distinct planets with unruly fortitude. This is where art comes in. It helps me deal with my compulsive randomness, and allows me to abate life's repressions while exploring all possibilities of transformation and growth. And for this, I am eternally grateful.

~ Otep Shamaya

Was the sky always this shade of magenta?

~ Jandy Nelson

Because at nightwhen others are sleeping, I drown myself in poetry.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Rough work with a soul will always be open to all, including condemnation & reviling, while fine work housing emptiness is closed to all insults & is easily ivied over with paid praises

~ Richard Flanagan

A very fine artist can take something quite ordinary and, through sheer artistry and willpower, turn it into a work of art.

~ Truman Capote

Your art is so abstract that I can only see it through my mind’s eye and touch it through my heart.

~ Debasish Mridha

Some thoughts you underestimate but may be capable of energizing the world. Never delay to put your thoughts into words.

~ Bikash Bhandari

Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.

~ Maya Angelou

My mind is my canvas, my thoughts are my color and paintbrush.

~ Debasish Mridha

He knew Kandinsky by heart: every trickle of red, slash of black ink, and hemorrhage of gold. Each dissonant note in its allegro, the harmony in its adagio, and its deep blue intermezzo, formed a symphony he had memorized in his body. He couldn’t say if Fragment 2 symbolized the Deluge, the Last Judgment, or the Resurrection. But it had become his religion, offering both redemption and pain..

~ Kelly Oliver

Venice, it's temples and palaces did seem like fabrics of enchantment piled to heaven.

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley