Quotes about Inspiration
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
Where there's liberty, art succeeds.
— Ronald Reagan
The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.
— Samuel Johnson
I wonder if real art comes when you build the thing that they don't have a prize for yet.
— Seth Godin
We don't need to be taught to make art, but sometimes we need permission to do so. Following instructions is overrated.
— Seth Godin
There's obviously always danger in making music or art for art's sake. Even as Christians we can be guilty of that, being more about the art than the Artist who gave us this gift.
— Steven Curtis Chapman
The Painter who seeks popularity in Art closes the door upon his own genius.
— Washington Allston