Artistic Inspiration Quotes

“A good poem cannot be written with one's mind on the earth. Though one has to write poems about the earth and existence, one cannot write poems while staying grounded. To write an outstanding poem, a flight to the heights of transcendence is needed. However, a person cannot always remain in that elevated state. When one descends, they touch the earth and write ordinary stuff.”
― Suman Pokhrel

“Paris

The Seine dresses in light black,
Mimicking the dark grey of the sky,

And so, I drown my ink into it.
Each poem becomes art,

Reflecting and dancing
Around my hands with care.

The notes the river shares
Become a painting that inspires
All the great artists housed in its museums.

Still, I vow and pray by its sight —
Yet I dare not claim to be an artist
As great as the one in sight.

In Paris.”
― Laura Chouette, The Willow Song

“Centering is not just for the wheel! We must also center our spiritual lives with the ways of the Lord.”
― Morgan McCarver, God the Artist: Revealing God’s Creative Side Through Pottery

“You are His work; you are His creation.”
― Morgan McCarver, God the Artist: Revealing God’s Creative Side Through Pottery

“In the same way a potter signs her work with a stamp, God signs His masterpieces.”
― Morgan McCarver, God the Artist: Revealing God’s Creative Side Through Pottery

“We are only human and clay is only clay.”
― Morgan McCarver, God the Artist: Revealing God’s Creative Side Through Pottery

“God has given us such a unique relationship with Him that can be better understood through clay.”
― Morgan McCarver, God the Artist: Revealing God’s Creative Side Through Pottery

“Just as how making something for someone else blesses both the giver and receiver, so does praising God.”
― Morgan McCarver, God the Artist: Revealing God’s Creative Side Through Pottery

“Even though we may think we are flawed, God has made us each exactly how He designed us.”
― Morgan McCarver, God the Artist: Revealing God’s Creative Side Through Pottery

“Ever since living things have existed, they have acknowledged God's might, because He created them.”
― Morgan McCarver, God the Artist: Revealing God’s Creative Side Through Pottery

“God created everything because of His ultimate power, wisdom, and understanding.”
― Morgan McCarver, God the Artist: Revealing God’s Creative Side Through Pottery

“Remember, God doesn't demand perfection. That is His job.”
― Morgan McCarver, God the Artist: Revealing God’s Creative Side Through Pottery

“If we knowingly choose to hide our God-given talents, then we are not fully honoring God.”
― Morgan McCarver, God the Artist: Revealing God’s Creative Side Through Pottery

“God designed each of us to have different creative talents to fill different daily needs.”
― Morgan McCarver, God the Artist: Revealing God’s Creative Side Through Pottery

“He gave us these gifts on earth so that we could bless others and spread the Gospel in our own effective ways.”
― Morgan McCarver, God the Artist: Revealing God’s Creative Side Through Pottery

“God's artistic signature is visibly hidden inside of every breathing thing on earth.”
― Morgan McCarver, God the Artist: Revealing God’s Creative Side Through Pottery

“Using your imagination allows your freedom from this world and gives you the ability to enjoy a glimpse of heaven.”
― Morgan McCarver, God the Artist: Revealing God’s Creative Side Through Pottery

“God created His first human being-Adam-from clay! We are made from the earth and connected to it.”
― Morgan McCarver, God the Artist: Revealing God’s Creative Side Through Pottery

“My goal is to reveal all the beautifully hidden symbols of God's love through creativity and art making.”
― Morgan McCarver, God the Artist: Revealing God’s Creative Side Through Pottery

“Like the clay that has been recycled and reclaimed, our lives have the capacity for change spiritually.”
― Morgan McCarver, God the Artist: Revealing God’s Creative Side Through Pottery

“I want to guide you on this creative journey to see how our creativity is Spiritually rooted in God. It is a God-given skill that we all can use to praise and glorify Him.”
― Morgan McCarver, God the Artist: Revealing God’s Creative Side Through Pottery

“Have you prepared a candlelit table for dinner in a forest where twilight reigns? Some may call this dazzling table, elegantly lit, a fantasy or a madness, but you call it the magnificent touch of artistic mind to life!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“When we touch one another through music, we are touching the heart, the mind, and the spirit all at once.

-- Leonard Bernstein”
― Burton Bernstein, Leonard Bernstein: American Original

“Art is a testament to human struggle – remove the human, and it’s art no more.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“Pain is my art. Madness is my muse.”
― Jonathan Harnisch, Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia

“It’s the same for all media: the first few brushstrokes to the blank canvas satisfy the requirements of many possible paintings, while the last few fit only that painting — they could go nowhere else. The development of an imagined piece into an actual piece is a progression of decreasing possibilities, as each step in execution reduces future options by converting one — and only one — possibility into a reality. Finally, at some point or another, the piece could not be other than it is, and it is done. That moment of completion is also, inevitably, a moment of loss — the loss of all the other forms the imagined piece might have taken.
...Designer Charles Eames, arguably the quintessential Renaissance Man of the twentieth century, used to complain good-naturedly that he devoted only about one percent of his energy to conceiving a design — and the remaining ninety-nine percent to holding onto it as a project ran its course. Small surprise. After all, your imagination is free to race a hundred works ahead, conceiving pieces you could and perhaps should and maybe one day will execute — but not today, not in the piece at hand. All you can work on today is directly in front of you. Your job is to develop an imagination of the possible. A finished piece is, in effect, a test of correspondence between imagination and execution. And perhaps surprisingly, the more common obstacle to achieving that correspondence is not undisciplined execution, but undisciplined imagination. It’s altogether too seductive to approach your proposed work believing your materials to be more malleable than they really are, your ideas more compelling, your execution more refined. As Stanley Kunitz once commented, “The poem in the head is always perfect. Resistance begins when you try to convert it into language.” And it’s true, most artists don’t daydream about making great art — they daydream about having made great art.”
― David Bayles, Art and Fear

“The scribe is a witness. He stands at an open door, observing hidden realms.
The muse that leads him to the threshold takes many forms, but its essence is
magic. Words hold the door open, and only words can close it.”
― J.G. McKenney

“You don´t know exactly what you'll find.”
― Genaro Strobel, Genaro Strobel: Size

“It would have been easy to create the illustrations in this book on a computer -- to take a photo of an original artwork and edit Kitten in digitally. It was a greater challenge, and a whole lot more fun, to see if I could actually make pieces of art that looked like the originals in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and blend Kitten's headlong pursuit of the mouse into them. Everything you see Kitten encountering and exploring in this book was handmade, using acrylic and oil paints, gouache, ink, plaster, wood, gold leaf, clay, paper, glass, lead, and more. Some of the techniques I used were ones that I'd done before, and some were new to me.

So yes, it could have been done digitally. And now, artificial intelligence even allows us to enter a description of what we want, and in seconds, the computer spits out an image. But where's the satisfaction in that? The computer created it, not us.

If you like making things, practice. Practice makes better! It takes time to develop skills so things turn out the way you want them to; the way you see them in your imagination--you can't simply leap ahead and skip all that work. But it's fun to write stories and to make pictures and build things, and I hope you'll do these things because they're satisfying. Focus on the enjoyment you get while your skills are coming along. You can make pretty much anything you want to, if you teach yourself how.

If people before us could do it, why not me? Why not you?”
― Brian Lies, Cat Nap

“The question of what propels artists forward remains a mystery, even to them. I’ve spoken often with James McMurtry over the years, and he tends to shrug off grand explanations. He writes songs. He travels. If he’s lucky, he said, he’ll sing something that someone feels they ought to hear. That modest perspective contains its own kind of wisdom. Songwriters rarely claim to have the answers. Instead, they keep asking questions—about love, loss, identity, and the strange business of being alive.”
― Brian D'Ambrosio, Troubadour Truths: Truth, Songs, and the Long Way Home