Quotes about Inspiration
So, we, their hearts, speak more and more softly. We never stop speaking out, but we begin to hope that our words won't be heard: we don't want people to suffer because they don't follow their hearts.
— Paulo Coelho
I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.
— Henri Matisse
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
— Pablo Picasso
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
— George Bernard Shaw
The sky is the ultimate art gallery just above us.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
In art we are once again able to do all the things we have forgotten; we are able to walk on water; we speak to the angels who call us; we move, unfettered, among the stars.
— Madeleine L'Engle
He who loses the arts loses the culture.
— Francis Schaeffer
Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.
— Pope John Paul II
To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I don't say everything, but I paint everything.
— Pablo Picasso
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
— GK Chesterton
I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
— Pablo Picasso