Albert Camus Quotes

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.

The artist is inherently a romantic to some degree, and as such, I believe in a muse. But I don't try to analyze too much where it comes from.

All great artists have some spiritual backing.

Art is something you can't teach, but you can inspire it.

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

I've never been able to understand where great artists come from.

The thing I wonder about is where does Brian's creative spark come from? Not his subjects or anything, but his spark. What makes it so great for me is that I really don't know. There's a mystery behind Brian, even to me.

There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture - that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within.

It's weird: I don't really know where I pull my inspiration from. I think it's N.E.R.D.

The people I feel inspired around draw pictures, they make paintings.

I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.

At moments we are all artists.

I see for others... in order to put on canvas the sudden apparitions which come to me.

All men are creative but few are artists.

Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again.

You can't really do anything creative without a source of inspiration.

Talent seduces us into interpretation. My sister could draw wonderfully, but she would never have hit upon the idea of becoming a painter. I never had that extreme talent.

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument.

And every good artist knows that the gift comes from somewhere else, and it's there for a reason, and that's to make the world a better place.

I'm trying to inspire as many people as I can. I want the viewer to enjoy the art and I want the whole family to have something to react to. I hope that folks go home and do a bit of doodling and creating on their own.

n artistic atmosphere does not create artists a literary atmosphere does not create literators; poets and painters spring up where there was never a verse made or a picture seen. This suggests that God is no more idle now than He was at the beginning, but that He is still and forever shaping the human chaos into the instruments and means of beauty.

Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.

If you cut a painter's hands off, he'd still feel the urge to pick up a brush.