Quotes About Inspiring Art

#1. Never put more than two waves in a picture; it's fussy.

Winslow Homer

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. Everything is inspiring! It could be fine art or a conversation I have with somebody!

Hiromi

#5. 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

#6. Financial security doesn't come from the amount of money you currently have; it comes from your ability to get more of it whenever you want ... Master the art of serving others and you will secure your financial future.

Michael Neill

#7. Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.

Karen Salmansohn

#8. There is never a lack of subject matter; just absence of creativity.

Lee Hammond

#9. The more you put yourself out there, the more there is for people to take exception with.

Lee Hammond

#10. We have defined art as the life form and aesthetic art as the life renewal: the stimulating, animating, agitating, inspiring, inspirational, fermenting, fascinating fanaticising, explosive and outrageous: the renewal of the unknown.

Asger Jorn

#11. Mine is the art of inspiring people to turn themselves inside out, transform their suffering into art, their art into awareness and their awareness into action

Gabrielle Roth

#12. If I look at the performance of another friend Sting, whenever I hear him take over a stage and share his art with millions, it's very inspiring to me. So I have a lot in my life, a lot of friends who inspire me and I'm sure it goes the other way around, or so that I inspire them.

Philippe Petit

#13. I think it's a tribute to the artistic importance of hip-hop culture and what hip-hop has brought into music and fashion and jewelry that it is being adapted or imitated or is inspiring variations or new types of art or new types of music.

Simon De Pury

#14. Some of the most unhappy artists in the most difficult situations can create awe-inspiring works of art.

Eric Gibbons

#15. We put on our walls what we think is beautiful or inspiring, and if others think that it is manufactured or shallow, then they need not have it on their walls.

Alexander McCall Smith

#16. Music is an art form too. Sometimes other forms of art can be inspiring to the musician.

Ken Hill

#17. I've always wanted to do things differently, and if one person or ten people are doing the same, then I want to do it differently. I love to travel, I love art, I love fashion. I love going to great restaurants and trying different things. Different cultures are inspiring to me.

Molly Sims

#18. Fashion week is very inspiring, and you can't look at things one dimensionally. And I think that everyone who works in this industry has a very three-dimensional view of what fashion is and what art is.

Mark Indelicato

#19. Infinity is present in each part. A loving smile contains all art. The motes of starlight spark and dart. A grain of sand holds power and might.

Madeleine L'Engle

#20. Music is the most physically inspiring of all the arts.

Frank Zappa

#21. Fear of failure and criticism can be crippling. Don't let others' negativity take away your joy.

Lee Hammond

#22. The art of British Columbia's native Indians played a big role in inspiring my creativity ... the simplicity of the images, the graciousness of the lines and curves, and the emotional impact of the bright simple primary colours.

Joe Average

#23. Filmmaking is not the work of the weak-minded. It may not be rocket science, but it requires ten times more strength of the mind than that.

Abhijit Naskar

#24. But I'm interested in the Barnes Collection in Philadelphia. I hear there are some of the worst Matisses there. I like seeing bad art by good artists. It's inspiring. I'm able to identify with them. It makes them real.

Jemima Kirke

#25. Fashion is an art.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#26. God's creation is the greatest of all arts.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#27. 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

#28. Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that has nothing to do with acquisition.

Sadie Jones

#29. It's possible to have an awesome life, but it's up to ourselves to do it.

Lee Hammond

#30. What is your real work? Is it that which pays the bills or is it your art? I think your real work is healing. Whatever helps you become more loving in this lifetime. Whatever helps you forgive yourself, embrace yourself, meet yourself, and free yourself in this lifetime.

Tama J. Kieves

#31. By encouraging the critic in themselves (the hater) they have killed the artist (the lover).

Brenda Ueland

#32. I love watching Rihanna in fashion. I like to see her take chances and risks. I like seeing Naomi Campbell in the forefront. They're both women who stand out and use their bodies as canvases to introduce this functional art to the world. They carry it in a way that is very inspiring.

Erykah Badu