Quotes about Inspiration
Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art.
— CS Lewis
It's not art for art's sake, it's art for my sake.
— DH Lawrence
Most art in the world does not have a capital 'A,' but is a way of turning everyday objects into personal expressions.
— Gloria Steinem
I believe that art has incredible power.
— Gloria Steinem
There is a great amity between designing and art.
— Joseph Addison
People should practice an art in order to make their souls grow and not to make money or become famous. Paint a picture. Write.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
If it's bad art, it's bad religion, no matter how pious the subject.
— Madeleine L'Engle
All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.
— Mahatma Gandhi
All true art must help the soul to realize its inner self.
— Mahatma Gandhi
It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.
— Oscar Wilde
Virtue runs before the muse, and defies her skill; she is rapt and doth refuse to wait a painter's will.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson