Quotes about Inspiration
Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
— Nikki Giovanni
The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.
— Pope John Paul II
Art is not living. It is the use of living. The artist has the ability to take the living and use it in a certain way and produce art.
— Audre Lorde
A deliberate plan is not always necessary for the highest art; it emerges.
— Paul Johnson
Creativity is the art of concealing your sources.
— Coco Chanel
Not everything you do is going to be a masterpiece, but you get art there and you try and sometimes it really happens. The other times you're just stretching your soul.
— Maya Angelou
Art seems to me to be above all a state of soul.
— Marc Chagall
Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.
— Olivia Newton-John
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
— Pablo Picasso
True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it.
— Michelangelo
Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.
— Nikki Giovanni
I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.
— Pablo Picasso