Top 89 Artist Inspiration Quotes
#1. I create beautiful art, so I can look back on the life my body fell short of in such a way that it brings me peace.
Nikki Rowe
#2. To the memory of Vincent Van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, El Greco, and many others who came before me as well as those who will come after. We are one. Thank you.
Luther E. Vann
#3. An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions, and I have mine.
Andres Serrano
#4. If you are really bored with life, just meet a decent magician and have a close up magic show, he will restore inspiration in your life.
Amit Kalantri
#5. An artist is usually the handyman in the service of inspiration.
Kenneth G. Mills
#6. A master's (an artist's) Modus Vivendi is to guide his creative self on the path of generating ideas, in a synergistic work resonating with the client's needs and Universe inspiration.
VIRGIL PROFEANU
#7. Other [artists'] music is really what you get most inspiration from, whether consciously or subconsciously. I like a lot of old music and a lot of soul music. I also really like a lot of new stuff.
Ben Rector
#8. It is probably better that the world knows only the result, not the conditions under which it was achieved; because knowledge of the artist's sources of inspiration might bewilder them, drive them away and in that way nullify the effect of the excellent work.
Thomas Mann
#9. The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it.
Vik Muniz
#10. I'm imagining the reader, whom I conjure as an aspiring artist much like my own younger, less grizzled self, to whom I hope to impart a little starch and inspiration and prime, a little, with some hard-knocks wisdom and a few tricks of the trade.
Steven Pressfield
#11. The artist must raise the cup of his vision aloft to the gods in the high hope that they will pour into it the sweet mellow wine of inspiration.
Paul Brunton
#12. Source of inspiration. The MAK is a museum that has had a profound effect on me as an artist and art viewer.
Kiki Smith
#13. Marvin Gaye is an inspiration to me. He was one of the first Motown musicians that my mom and dad introduced me to, and I always thought it would be a good idea if I was ever an artist, and now I am, to make a record called 'Marvin Gaye.'
Charlie Puth
#14. A landscape clean and crisp in form and colour, rich in inspiration is all that an artist could wish for, begging to be used, and full of inherent possibilities ...
Franklin Carmichael
#15. An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.
Nick Cave
#16. Carving is a source of joy to the artist ... To attack the raw material, gradually to extract a shape out of it following one's own desire, or, sometimes, the inspiration of the material itself: this gives the sculptor great joy.
Aristide Maillol
#17. The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form [and] knowledge, keeps him fresh and from working only by formula, and feeds inspiration.
Henry Moore
#18. Persecution inspires men who otherwise would have remained dormant. As pain whips the painter, his brush whips the canvas.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#19. It has been my personal experience that as I allow the painting to speak I become lost, it is delicious and at the same time frightening. The best ones, to me, have a life of their own.
Luther E. Vann
#20. When the artist activates his being, awakens to his surroundings, and sets himself the task of creating, connections are made out of conscious awareness that return coalesced as inspiration.
Eric Maisel
#21. Surrounding yourself with creative, imaginative people is a good strategy for success whether you're an entrepreneur seeking innovation or an artist looking for inspiration.
Harvey MacKay
#23. A con artist, a total imposter, had played on my desires for the Cinderella dream and won a Monopoly trip to jail. I had hoped for uprightness, integrity, and potentially a relationship. Longing overshadowed the voice of conscience.
Debra Moffitt
#24. In such a person, sadness breeds purpose; finding inspiration in the darkness and often times, I believe, they will impress a hell onto their own lives in order to re-create it, that others might suffer the experience from the comfort of their armchairs. - Quote from Her Past's Present.
Michael Poeltl
#25. In Paris, I met a young American person who immediately became the primary inspiration which awakened my vision and the leading influence that had directed my forces. Throughout my career as an artist, I refer to this person by the word 'Woman.'
Gaston Lachaise
#26. If you're going to be an artist, real life is your inspiration.
Madonna Ciccone
#27. My holy of holies are the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and the most absolute freedom - freedom from force and falsity, in whatever form these last may be expressed. This is the program I would maintain, were I a great artist.
Anton Chekhov
#28. I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.
Federico Fellini
#29. Only by pairing knowledge with inspiration will art evolve. Without these conditions any musician will remain a flawed artist, if one may speak of an artist at all.
Hector Berlioz
#31. Magic is not just for the entertainment, but to inspire people to be creative enough with their lives.
Amit Kalantri
#32. You can't stumble into an adventure. An artist must dance, not walk, in order to inspire their audience. This patient audience who has witnessed all that you've ever performed. So don't be shy. Just dance. Set this scene into motion.
F.K. Preston
#33. As an artist, I'm really inspired by everything around me - from travel and art, to friends and family, social voices in media and politics. I get a lot of inspiration from daily life.
Cara Santana
#34. Express your vision,
define your goals,
proceed with precision
till the end is known.
Inspiration is your map,
passion is your driver,
imagination is the vehicle
and art is the destination.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#35. It is as well that the world knows only a fine piece of work and not also its origins, the conditions under which it came into being; for knowledge of the sources of an artist's inspiration would often confuse readers and shock them, and the excellence of the writing would be of no avail.
Thomas Mann
#36. Take on the challenge and find inspiration in the process.
Stefan Baumann
#37. Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration. The fresh piece of paper on the drawing board is as blank as the newly stretched piece of canvas.
Henry Petroski
#38. The best and only thing that one artist can do for another is to serve as an example and an inspiration.
Steven Pressfield
#39. To see things as the poet sees them I must share his consciousness and not attend to it; I must look where he looks and not turn round to face him; I must make of him not a spectacle but a pair of spectacles; in fine, as Professor Alexander would say, I must enjoy him and not contemplate him.
C.S. Lewis
#40. When I need some striking inspiration about deep depression for my new painting, I just need to go to check my bank account ...
Hiroko Sakai
#41. It's called "being an artist" for a reason; it's something YOU ARE. It's how you live. It's WHO you are. How you spend your life and what you leave behind.
Charlotte Eriksson
#42. The activity of painting: A thrilling tussle between the artist's materials and his inspiration.
Mervyn Levy
#43. When birds look into houses, what impossible worlds they see.
Don DeLillo
#44. In terms of the organic feel and the love for noises, I definitely feel more connected to Four Tet and Fennesz, as any dance floor artist. I do like some dancey stuff like Martyn when I DJ, but I draw my inspiration from other things.
Apparat
#45. Sometimes I'm in the studio, sometimes I'm not. It's about delivering the music to the artist, but it's also about the inspiration.
DJ Khaled
#46. Of course Nebraska is a storehouse of literary material. Everywhere is a storehouse of literary material. If a true artist were born in a pigpen and raised in a sty, he would still find plenty of inspiration for his work. The only need is the eye to see.
Willa Cather
#47. Measurements are never enough. The artist's eye and desire to breathe life into the subject must be the deciding factors.
David McCullough
#48. Being an artist isn't a genetic disposition or a specific talent. It's an attitude we can all adopt. It's a hunger to seize new ground, make connections, and work without a map. If you do those things, you're an artist.
Seth Godin
#49. Work neither for fame nor profit. An artist should aspire only to inspire.
Hayden Pearton
#50. It's important for an artist to realize his own style. Copying or letting yourself be influenced by another's work is good for a start, just don't let yourself get stuck with it. Try to evolve and develop your own. Broadening your knowledge in other mediums is important in acquiring inspiration.
Arnold Arre
#51. Even now I often ask myself: perhaps love produces a feeling of inspiration similar to that experienced by an artist or a poet?
Chingiz Aitmatov
#52. Mistress Creation keeps calling my name ... i long for her, and she, for me ... we will be reunited soon. In the interim, i bide my time dreaming of her, writing about her and stretching her across the vast landscape of my imagination. "Soon", i whisper to her, "Soon
Jaeda DeWalt
#53. Inspiration more often comes during the work than before it, because the largest part of the job of an artist is to listen to the work.
Madeleine L'Engle
#54. Writing comes from deep within, seeping out of the soul onto the white of paper. It carries with it the lifeblood of the artist, exposing their secrets to the world.
Amber E. Box
#55. When I hear the same formula being used over and over, I get bored. Just as huge pop artists have taken inspiration from things that are happening at the moment, I do the same with my music.
Katy B
#56. For popular purposes, at least, the aim of literary artists should be similar to that of Rubens in his landscapes, of which, without neglecting the minor traits or finishing, he was chiefly solicitous to present the leading effect, or what we may call the inspiration.
William Benton Clulow
#57. I believe in spiritualism. It's like, when you listen to music or something and then you're sort of primed. If you're an artist, you're sort of primed and inspired, and you start drawing, you sort of have the spirit of what you're listening to, still in you. You just have sort of an inspiration.
Daniel Johnston
#58. The artist speaks with inspiring tools of creativity. Thinkers challenge with the weapons of choice. These two forces are necessary to move souls beyond limitation.
T.F. Hodge
#59. For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
#60. Being passionate about something is the most beautiful characteristic you can develop.
Charlotte Eriksson
#61. She (the artist, the writer) doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition.
Steven Pressfield
#62. With the manipulation of abstract
symbols, an artist can send you information without sound, change your feelings and,
sometimes, even beliefs. Artists convey the unspeakable. Artists inspire.
Jonathan Culver
#63. In terms of my inspirations to become an artist, I think they come from early ideas and impressions about community, and the type of community I wanted to be in, and the type of thinking I wanted to do.
Laura Owens
#64. When I was younger I thought I was an artist, and inspiration would just come to me.
Stockard Channing
#65. What are we artists for? We are for showing you what you've wandered for to find the home of your spirit ...
Hiroko Sakai
#66. We all have an inner artist that has something to tell us if we allow it to come to the surface.
Bill Buchman
#67. If that condition of mind and soul, which we call inspiration, lasted long without intermission, no artist could survive it. The strings would break and the instrument be shattered into fragments.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
#68. Art invariably grows out of a period when, in general, the artist admires his own nation and wants to win its approval.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#69. I'm married to an artist. I get a lot of inspiration from art, from the lighting in art, from the compositions in art, from the textures, and all of that. I'm always playing with it.
Fred Schepisi
#70. The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness.
Joanne Greenberg
#71. Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
W. Somerset Maugham
#72. The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#73. The score of Pelleas and Melisande by Debussy, heralds that which will lift man from the earthly to the celestial, from the mortal to the immortal. Once again the ways of the artist and healer are merging.
Corinne Heline
#74. An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.
Irving Stone
#75. There's nothing like a little fear or hunger to motivate one's inspiration. To take that away from a young artist can offer quite a disservice.
Ken Danby
#76. Find what makes you happy and go for it with all your heart. It will be hard, but I promise it will be worth it.
Charlotte Eriksson
#77. Nature is my main source of inspiration - I will never stop taking hints from what I call 'the greatest artist'
Roberto Cavalli
#78. You have to keep doing it,
Even if no one is watching.
The best artists, are those
Who live from their expressions,
Not chasing the impressions.
Nikki Rowe
#79. Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.
Bono
#80. The artist who gave me the most inspiration and direction, especially as a singer - and I absolutely consider myself a singer, 100 percent - is Nina Simone. She's my ultimate pianist-singer-type person.
Rufus Wainwright
#81. For the novelist or poet, for the scientist or artist, the question is not where do ideas come from, the question is how they come. The how is the mystery. The how is fragile.
E.L. Konigsburg
#83. As for work, without it, without painstaking work, any writer or artist definitely remains a dilettante; there's no point in waiting for so-called blissful moments, for inspiration; if it comes, so much the better
but you keep working anyway.
Ivan Turgenev
#84. If an artist wants to be original, he should not look to art for inspiration, for art seeks its model in life, not art - and only life is rich enough to simulate originality.
Anthony Marais
#85. My favorite recordings are the ones that feel like there were no middlemen in the creation. That's the biggest problem with most films and records being made today - too many people involved. I think it dilutes the artist's intent and inspiration.
M. Ward
#86. Artistic temperament is like a king with vigor and unlimited opportunity. You shake the structure to pieces by playing with it.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#87. I think every musician is different, every artist is different, and in a perfect world people would be able to pursue their own path and have the inspiration and the drive to, and the energy and dedication to take their path to its fruition. I don't really believe in formulas.
Emily Haines
#88. You know you possess the soul of an artist when, each time you sit down to create, the whole universe lays itself at your feet.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
#89. Unlike other reformers, Luther rarely claimed divine inspiration for his ideas. It is interesting too that he uses the word Kunst - art - for it suggests that the insight, like the skill of a craftsman or artist, opened up a whole new ability to accomplish things in a different way.
Lyndal Roper
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