Activate Quote by Eric Maisel

To create is to relate. We trust in the artist in everybody to make his own connections, his own juxtapositions.

— Corita Kent

An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown rather than the known.…

— Julia Cameron

What the artist tries to do (either consciously or unconsciously) is to not only capture the essence of something but also to amplify it…

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

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

— Giacomo Puccini

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.

— Robert Henri

The creative person is constantly seeking to discover himself, to remodel his own identity, and to find meaning in what he creates.

— Anthony Storr

Most artists are brought to their vocation when their own nascent gifts are awakened by the work of a master. That is to say,…

— Lewis Hyde

The role of an artist is to awaken the deep life urge that is already in every person.

— Ann Mortifee

The idea is that what an artist lives through should broaden his notion of what it is possible for a human being to live…

— George Saunders

What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the history of…

— Anselm Kiefer

Artists create out of a sense of desolation. The spirit of creation is a excruciating, intricate exploration from within the soul.

— El Greco

The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls 'inspiration.'

— Leon Trotsky