Quotes about Inspiration
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
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