Quotes about Inspiration
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
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