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“I'll get an inspiration and start painting; then I'll forget everything, everything except how things used to be and how to paint it so people will know how we used to live.”

People Knows Inspiration Used Forget Know How Painting Paint Used To Be Forget Everything

Author:Grandma Moses

“There has never been a painting that was more beautiful than nature. The model does not unfold herself to you, you must rise to her. She should be the inspiration for your painting. No man has ever over-appreciated a human being.”

Men Should Humans Doe Inspiration Beautiful Nature Human Beings Painting Models Appreciated

Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

“In every painting a whole is mysteriously enclosed, a whole life of tortures, doubts, of hours of enthusiasm and inspiration.”

Whole Inspiration Hours Doubt Painting Whole Life Enthusiasm Torture

Book:Concerning the Spiritual in Art: And Painting in Particular

Source: Concerning the Spiritual in Art: And Painting in Particular

“When I need some striking inspiration about deep depression for my new painting, I just need to go to check my bank account.”

Needs Inspiration Painting Accounts Checks Bank Accounts Deep Depression

Author:Hiroko Sakai

“The environment becomes inspiration. My response to it becomes idea. And idea becomes purpose and action through interpretation and painting.”

Ideas Inspiration Action Purpose Environment Painting Response Interpretation

Author:Gerald Brommer

“I equate inspiration with desire the desire that moves us to be artists in the first place. To attempt to make a painting without this motivation is a waste of time.”

Firsts Inspiration Moving Desire Artist Motivation Painting Waste Wasting Time

Author:Nita Engle

“I get inspiration from things that have nothing to do with painting: caricature, items from newspapers, sights in the street, proverbs, nursery-rhymes, children's games and songs, nightmares, desires, terrors. ... That question [why do you paint?] has been put to me before and my answer was, 'To give terror a face.' But it's more than that. I paint because I can't help it.”

Source: Paula Rego

“My inspiration came from the land, ... and, of course, from Paul Klee . . . and the poetics of his paintings.”

Inspiration Courses Land Painting

Author:Renzo Piano

“Emile Saint-Blague had been a lively, versatile painter in his youth, but he had abused his energy by painting too many pictures; so that in what might have been the ripe period of his art he had nothing left but ideas. A man who has nothing left but ideas may be of great service to his friends, but he is of no use at all to himself. Emile was certainly an inspiration to his friends.”

Men May Has Beens Art Ideas Use Inspiration Might Energy Left Youth Painting Periods Saint Painter Might Have Been Ripe Lively Versatile Great Service

Author:Laura Riding

“As much as I love performing, nothing juices me up creatively like being in my own studio for an extended period. Songs, ideas, even paintings are pouring out of me. My inspiration and usual subject matter: life.”

Ideas Matter Inspiration Song My Own Subjects Painting Periods Studios Performing Usual Juice Subject Matter Pouring

Author:Adrian Belew

“I don't get my inspiration from books or a painting. I get it from the women I meet.”

Book Inspiration Painting

Author:Carolina Herrera

“To have that powder blown up your nose is rather like being shot out of a rifle barrel lined with Baroque paintings and landing on a sea of electricity.”

Inspiration Motivation Sea Painting Shots Noses Electricity Barrels Landing Rifles Powder Baroque

Author:Wade Davis