Quotes about Inspiration
Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.
— Pablo Picasso
The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
— Oscar Wilde
The first choice an artist makes is precisely to be an artist, and if he chooses to be an artist it is in consideration of what he is himself and because of a certain idea he has of art
— Albert Camus
The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.
— CS Lewis
The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art in the Church fundamentally exists for evangelization
— Pope Francis
Have you not seen that in our days Of any whose story, song or art Delights us, our sincerest praise Means, when all's said, 'You break my heart?
— CS Lewis
Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art.
— Charles Dickens
The arts are not a luxury. They are an integral part of our lives as individuals and as a nation.
— Hillary Clinton
No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.
— Marcus Aurelius
The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life.
— Timothy Keller
Great art transcends its culture and touches on that which is eternal.
— Madeleine L'Engle