Top 37 Inspiring Artist Quotes
#1. Which are you? ... competen t, inspiring, passionate, obsessed, provocative, impatient, hungry, driven, adoring, inspired, an artist, a genius, someone who cares ... ?
With all these remarkable, powerful, important options available to each of us, why do so many of us default to competent?
Seth Godin
#2. A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.
Dmitri Shostakovich
#3. Obviously, the duty of artists is there, but it's more an indictment of the political system that someone like Zinn views artists as the seers, idealizing them as the people responsible for inspiring change.
Thom Yorke
#4. I think my best skill as an architect is the achievement of hand-to-eye coordination. I am able to transfer a sketch into a model into the building.
Frank Gehry
#5. As a child, I didn't know what I didn't have. I'm thankful for the challenges early on in my life because now I have a perspective on the world and kind of know what's important.
America Ferrera
#6. Group sex, are you kidding, I had group sex - my wife screwed in front of the jury.
Rodney Dangerfield
#7. When you imitate the enemy's tactics, you take on his liabilities.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#8. H.P. Lovecraft is for fantasy fiction what C.G. Jung is for analytical psychology.
Bogdan Vaida
#10. She had wailed loudly enough to wake the dead and make them call the cops.
Ilona Andrews
#11. Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.
E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax
#12. I've always had so much admiration for my mom. She's so inspiring as a woman and as an artist.
Jennifer Jason Leigh
#13. When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#14. In climbing, sponsors typically support an athlete but provide very little direction, giving the climber free rein to follow his or her passion toward whatever is inspiring. It's a wonderful freedom, in many ways similar to that of an artist who simply lives his life and creates whatever moves him.
Alex Honnold
#15. Children are inspiring because they are open and a lot more intelligent than grown ups. They also have contagious playfulness and joy. For me as an artist the challenge of having a child is having to think ahead a lot more. Which in a way is good, since I sometimes lack self-discipline.
Olof Arnalds
#16. But the artist persists because he has the will to create, and this is the magic power which can transform and transfigure and transpose and which will ultimately be transmitted to others.
Anais Nin
#17. An artist is only an artist on condition that he neglects no aspect of his dual nature. This dualism is the power of being oneself and someone else at one and the same time.
Charles Baudelaire
#18. The artist is the person who makes life more interesting or beautiful, more understandable or mysterious, or probably, in the best sense, more wonderful.
George Bellows
#19. It doesn't matter the genre or type of art, if it's authentic there's an apparent beauty to it and as an artist, that's very inspiring.
Brian McKnight
#20. Who are you when the person you are in your heart doesn't match the life you're living?
Ruth Cardello
#21. By encouraging the critic in themselves (the hater) they have killed the artist (the lover).
Brenda Ueland
#22. I've never moved. I've never ever wanted to.
Mick Jones
#23. Being passionate about something is the most beautiful characteristic you can develop.
Charlotte Eriksson
#24. 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
#25. I was in Nashville and I was having just the most amazing time there, discovering who I was as an artist because that is such a music city. Everyone there is so friendly and inspiring and down to jam.
Lisa Origliasso
#26. I feel that this is my artistic home, and I'm very happy to be a California artist together with many others who are not from here originally but who decided to make this the center of their activities. There's something about that that I find very inspiring and satisfying.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
#27. I have always been a martial artist by choice, an actor by profession, but above all, am actualising myself to be an artist of life.
Bruce Lee
#28. A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.
Oswald Mosley
#29. I'm a musician, so for the most part I've always thought that the musicians were equally as inspiring to listen to - maybe more so, in some cases - in addition to the artists.
Vince Gill
#30. 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
#31. The awe-inspiring beauty of nature is nothing more than being flabbergasted by our ignorance of it. Good art produces the same effect; and the worst thing an artist can do is to follow the herd, because domesticated art is about as dynamic as a domesticated animal.
Anthony Marais
#32. At some level it's still hard for me to admit that my father died. I can talk about it and around it, but those two words. 'He died.' What can that possibly mean? That I won't get to hear his voice again?
Jennifer Grant
#33. We stand in black to watch this rite performed, the body in the box, the box in the hole, the dirt on the box.
Johnny Rich
#34. No one has yet had the courage to memorialize his wealth on his tombstone. A dollar mark would not look well there.
Corra May Harris
#35. I'm 45 years old. I used to be a club girl, but that's not my world anymore. That doesn't mean I can't make music that excites. I think it's inspiring to see an artist you grew up with take another crack.
Shirley Manson
#36. I open up my violin case every day, and have one of the great creations. It is very inspiring. It makes you want to practice. How can you open up a case and look at a violin that was made in 1713 by one of the greatest artists in history and then say, "No, I don't feel like practicing today."
Joshua Bell
#37. Give me a chance, says Stupid, and I will show you. Ten to one he has had his chance already, and neglected it.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
