Quotes About Artistic Inspiration

#1. There's an inherent message in my work relating to recycling and the nature of value, but my artistic inspiration is fired by the qualities within the raw materials ... I come across many things which have been abandoned and find something more in them than their intrinsic worthlessness.

Ptolemy

#2. Art and science were in German hands. Apart from the new artistic trash, which might easily have been produced by a negro tribe, all genuine artistic inspiration came from the German section of the population.

Adolf Hitler

#3. My dad and I are best friends. He's pretty much responsible for the way I turned out. He would provide a little artistic inspiration here and there in the form of a guitar, stuff like that.

Trent Reznor

#4. Artistic inspiration ignores the law of supply and demand.

Mason Cooley

#5. Unalert yet sometimes suffused through and through by an inward light, is characteristic of the primitive and of the child (and also of those moments of religious and artistic inspiration that occur ever less and less often as a Culture grows older) right

Oswald Spengler

#6. No one can discover you until you do. Exploit your talents, skills and strengths and make the world sit up and take notice.

Rob Liano

#7. The 'Muse' is not an artistic mystery, but a mathematical equation. The gift are those ideas you think of as you drift to sleep. The giver is that one you think of when you first awake.

Roman Payne

#8. About writing:The trick is to make sure you love what you've produced
to Believe..in order to convince.

Christina Westover

#9. Is being burnt a requisite for the making of art? Personally, I don't think it is. But art is poultice for a burn. It is a privilege to have, somewhere within you, a capacity for making something speak from your own seared experience.

Molly Peacock

#10. Love life.
Live one day at a time.
Pray for strength and grace to accomplish your daily task.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.

Victor Hugo

#12. Although I was born into the America that experiences and believes in opportunity, my trips to Ferguson, Detroit, Atlanta, and Chicago have revealed that there is an undercurrent of unease.

Rand Paul

#13. Being surrounded by artistic and musical beauty soothes the soul, bringing both quiet calm and creative inspiration ...

Wayne D. Dosick

#14. Inspiration is the key to our evolution.

Eddie Pena

#15. It is vital that we avoid any hint of moral superiority in our dealings with one another in the environmental movement; if it developed into factionalism it would destroy us, as factionalism has destroyed so many other progressive movements in America.

Edward Abbey

#16. What could make my life better? Oh, if I could only find that magic bottle that lets you never have to sleep. I have so much stuff I wanna do, but ... That six or seven hours you have to be in bed with your eyes closed. What a waste!

Robert Rodriguez

#17. I had to write something and couldn't think of a plot, so I decided to write a Cinderella story because it already had a plot! Then, when I thought about Cinderella's character, I realized that she was too much of a goody-two-shoes for me, and I would hate her before I finished ten pages.

Gail Carson Levine

#18. 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

#19. Creation and Free Will are constantly moving, hand in hand, like children traveling along a path full of impulses and inspirations.Through the use of the Dragonflame philosophy they become superior artistic beings able to enjoy and share the fruits of creative labor.

Lawren Leo

#20. It sounded like you were having Bella for lunch, and we came to see if you would share

Stephenie Meyer

#21. But the idea of using the Apache resistance, one, it works effective to actually get German soldiers to think of Jews that way. You know, and they're not just any Jews. They're the American Jews. They're Jews with entitlement.

Quentin Tarantino

#22. Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.

Giacomo Puccini

#23. Artistic temperament is like a king with vigor and unlimited opportunity. You shake the structure to pieces by playing with it.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#24. In New York, I get a tremendous amount of ideas by looking at the paintings and the sculptures, adapting artistic endeavors to crafts. There is a lot of inspiration around us that we can see every day and turn into projects.

Martha Stewart

#25. The really inspired person is never inspired: he's always inspired: he doesn't go looking for inspiration and he doesn't get up in arms about artistic technique.

Raymond Queneau

#26. You have to look closely to see clearly.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#27. It is only when the mind and imagination are enriched from exposure to the world of beauty, that artistic creativity and inspiration truly becomes manifest.

Mark Woollacott

#28. It was a pleasure to meet President Obama and Michelle. I'm not a political person, but I admire what he has done.

Patricia McBride