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I view art as an inspirational tool. -- Thomas Kincade
Human requirements are the inspiration for art. -- Stephen Gardiner
Inspiration comes from everywhere: books, art, people on the street. It is an interior process for me. -- Colleen Atwood
The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking for inspiration? -- Kate Christensen
Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution. -- Tony Kushner
Silent pictures show us how we lived and what our attitudes were. And as an art form, they can be wonderfully entertaining and often inspirational. -- Kevin Brownlow
Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'. -- Norman Lindsay
Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression. -- Arthur Erickson
Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture. -- John Howe
What sets 'Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children' apart is Riggs's use of 'found' photographs as a spark of inspiration for the narrative. 'Found' describes art created from common objects that are not normally considered art. -- Claire Cameron
I've never been a big fan of subtle art. I like art that gets deep into my head and starts my brain spinning with new ideas and inspiration and my whole body is full of energy. -- Jello Biafra
I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I love the shapes, and I get inspiration from toys and books, and I believe in art for everyone. -- Florentijn Hofman
My mother was a very big inspiration. She loved fashion. I loved art in school, and I was very good at drawing. I could sit at the table forever and just dream up collections and draw. -- Nina Garcia
Making art, good art, is always a struggle. It can make you happy when you pull it off. There's no better feeling. It's beauteous. But it's always about hard work and inspiration and sweat and good ideas. -- Damien Hirst
My participation in the Art of the Olympians is a natural extension of my athletic career. I find creating a piece of art in many respects mirrors my long jumping efforts illustrating that hard work and inspiration will always be the foundation for success. -- Bob Beamon
President Obama called for a 'we' nation in his Inauguration Address. Art convenes. It is not just inspirational. It is aspirational. It pricks the walls of our compartmentalized minds, opens our hearts and makes us brave. And that's what we need most in our country today. -- Anna Deavere Smith
I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It's art that will re-define public space in the 21st Century. We can make our cities diverse, inspirational places by putting art, dance and performance in all its forms into the matrix of street life. -- Antony Gormley
I'm a happy camper when I'm doing both: writing and art every day, along with a dose of reading and adventures into what else is being done by other artists/writers and poets. Like breathing. I've written poems or fictions to go with a painting. The source for the inspiration of the art often eludes me. -- Marge Simon
In a lot of the art world, you have to present yourself as you know what you're doing at a young age. Music gave me another outlet. The 'no wave' bands were such an inspiration; it felt so free - once you start doing it, it's hard to stop. But I can't get away from art. It comes back around. I wouldn't be true to myself if I didn't pursue it. -- Kim Gordon
Art is craft, not inspiration. -- Stephen Sondheim
Lying for lying's sake is the inspiration behind all great art -- Marty Rubin
Music, art, landscape - these are all things I draw inspiration from. -- Josh McDermitt
Make your art a gift of inspiration to others to work toward better things. -- Richard Schmid
Today, I find inspiration in music, art, traveling the world, and meeting new people. -- Nastia Liukin
Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it. -- Walter Darby Bannard
I find inspiration in everything from a piece of art to the hem of a dress. -- Idara Victor
As artists, the pleasure is to really have your work resonate and mean something. Art takes its inspiration from reality. -- Yareli Arizmendi
Source of inspiration. The MAK is a museum that has had a profound effect on me as an artist and art viewer. -- Kiki Smith
To be the agent whose touch changes nature from a wild force to a work of art is inspiration of the highest order. -- Robert Rodale
I get my inspiration from books, pictures, art. I might find a vintage scarf and say, "I think this should be our color palette." -- Jessica Simpson
Art is the extended arm of your imagination, The feast of inspiration for your muse. Art isn't just creativity, its a way of life. -- Sarah Curran
Leadership is an art expressed by the demonstration of characters worthy of immitation, emulation and inspiration. It is neither a title nor a postion. -- Israelmore Ayivor
We cannot underestimate the power of the different art forms, and the correspondences between them, which are an unending source of inspiration and enrichment. -- Helene Grimaud
The art of land warfare is an art of genius, of inspiration. On the sea nothing is genius or inspiration; everything is positive or empiric. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Works of Art are meant to connect the human heart to inspiration, for cosmic consciousness to grow in the Supreme Reality rooted in Life and Being. -- Nelly Mazloum
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
Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration only can give birth to a work of art. The least of man's original emanation is better than the best of borrowed thought. -- Albert Pinkham Ryder

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