Top 1200 Inspirational Artist Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I would be lying if I didn't say that the most inspirational place for me is Jamaica.

The artist is a strange being. I think it's safe to say that a real artist is conscious of having a personal singularity that is partly a blessing and partly a curse. An artist enjoys and suffers from isolation. As solitude, isolation can nurture. It can also destroy.

The hymn 'Amazing Grace' is so inspirational - I wish I'd written it.

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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

I have amazing friends who have led inspirational lives.

I had hoped when my life was chronicled, it would be an inspirational story.

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I like to tell the artist what the song or album means to me, in detail. Then I let the artist run with it and create in an unrestrained manner. Once the artist gets back to me with a few ideas, I like to do the little changes to make it perfectly speak to the audience.

Reading inspirational and motivational quotes daily is like taking my vitamins.

Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.

The flow of Guiness into the studio was inspirational as well as nutritive.

'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It's what they want.

It really is an honor if I can be inspirational to a younger singer or person. It means I've done my job.

To many people Michael Jackson seems an elusive personality, but to those who work with him, he is not. This talented artist is a sensitive man, warm, funny, and full of insight. Michael's book 'Moonwalk', provides a startling glimpse of the artist at work and the artist in reflection.

I want to be an artist artist, a real artist. I don't just want to do this for temporary money.

I thought 'Moulin Rouge' was inspirational, and 'Jesus Christ Superstar' I loved.

People like the feeling of access that is very raw, unedited, and inspirational.

I write down inspirational things on cards that I keep in my bag and look at during the round.

The most inspirational person in my life has been my mother.

I was associated with the Artist Placement Group in the early 1970s and David Hall, the video artist, was an Artist Placement Group artist. I was completely broke at that time, and he said to me, "Come and do some teaching" - he was head of department at Maidstone College of Art. And I went and did a couple of teaching days and practically the only person who showed up was David Cunningham [Flying Lizard's main man], with all of this finished work

The future and where we're going can be very terrifying, in some ways, but it's also really inspirational.

Sport is something that is very inspirational for young people.

I was worried that I, the artist Morimura, would have conflicts with the participating artists and develop a strenuous relationship with them. But the actual experience was completely the opposite. The artists accepted my requests rather positively, because it came from a fellow artist. I strongly feel that the fact that my being an artist avoided the usual curator vs artist tension, and led to creating a positive atmosphere as well as developing a solidarity amongst artists and building a community for artists.

When I am working out, I listen to inspirational speeches.

For me, it was all about working with an inspirational filmmaker.

The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must feel and comprehend the vast pressure of the creative passion.

There questions of wanting to be an artist, and what does that mean, what makes you an artist? Are you an artist if you're in a gallery in New York and not an artist if you're doing it at home? Do you need legitimation to count? If you've been acculturated to believe that you have certain obligations - familial, social, human - if multitasking has been your forte and that's what's been praised and rewarded, where do you find the single-mindedness, the selfishness to do something like art? I think those are questions that arise differently for women and for men.

I just like artist-driven projects, but for artists themselves: artist spaces, artist mentor programs, and artists buying buildings and making lofts. Doing whatever we can do. Because at the end of the day, I really think that we as a community only have each other.

Late in my career, I was asked to do an inspirational record and a duets album and I didn't want to do either.

A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.

Most of my sermons are inspirational, and I believe people need that encouragement.

My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.

I'm always on the lookout for projects with a strong moral and inspirational core.

You destroy my life then feed me inspirational philosophy.

The government will see that human spaceflight is useful - for science and the economy - and inspirational.

Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.

The 'Dezeen's of this world are extremely inspirational but have no realistic dimension any more.

There’s no “correct path” to becoming a real artist. You might think you’ll gain legitimacy by going to university, getting published, getting signed to a record label. But it’s all bullshit, and it’s all in your head. You’re an artist when you say you are. And you’re a good artist when you make somebody else experience or feel something deep or unexpected.

You can profit by disappointment - if it is turned into inspirational dissatisfaction with a positive mental attitude.

Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational.

We have outstanding schools, world-class teaching and inspirational leadership across the country.

Kunta Kinte is the closest thing I've ever seen... to a superhero. He's amazing. He's inspirational.

I like to believe a true fan of music or an artist has a genuine respect for what the artist does and has a distinct understanding of their actions. In that buying an album they are helping the artist to continue making music. It's hard because everyone wants something to be free.

The idea of a talent that was bigger than an artist's ability to choose to use it, that would dictate the artist's life more than the artist could dictate, was interesting to me.

At the end of the day, I'm an artist. I may make work and decide to do something political, but it will come out of an artist's position. It won't come out of society telling me I have to. If I do, it's because I choose, as an artist, to do it.

I think anyone who has a passion for what they love to do, and who pursue it, is inspirational for me.

When the going gets tough that should be your inspirational reason to drive on.

Now the expectation is that, once the public decides that the artist is gentrified, the public demands that the artist stop growing. And [the public] actually puts all their energy into reasserting or re-establishing what the artist has long ago left behind. Because that's what they want. The source of creativity, the gift that's been given, be damned.

There are more inspirational people in music than there are in politics.

Almost every Spirit filled believer is able to prophesy on an inspirational level.

[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.

I have a 1969 Grammer Johnny Cash acoustic guitar, and it's so inspirational.

It's never your successful friends posting the inspirational quotes

Look at those who have talked about you and doubted you. They are your inspirational reason to succeed.

If we get out there trying to be inspirational, then we probably won't be.

I'm lucky to have so many supportive, inspirational people in my life.

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.

I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it.

This image of wanting to be an artist - that I would in some way become an artist -was very strong. I knew for a long, long time that that's what I would be. But nothing I ever did seemed to bring me any nearer to the condition of being an artist. And I didn't know how to do it.