Inspiration Quote by Nita Engle

I equate inspiration with desire – the desire that moves us to be artists in the first place. To attempt to make a painting…

— Nita Engle

As an artist you organize your life so that you get a chance to paint, a window of time, but that's no guarantee you'll…

— Chuck Palahniuk

To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.

— William Boyd

You could say that I have no inspiration, that I only need to paint.

— Francis Bacon

Inspiration is a joke, real artists sit down and work

— Tara Donovan

You cannot just be working in a vast, air-conditioned loft space and think you are going to make a decent painting. Francis Bacon had…

— Peter Doig

The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.

— Lucian Freud

“Painting has to do with knocking yourself out day after day trying to get what you want to down on canvas. Maybe it works…

— Zibby Oneal

“Painters must want to paint above all else. If the artist in front of the canvas begins to wonder how much he will sell…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective.

— Max Beckmann

The motivation to paint seems more pure, or at least more personal, when the artist is doing it for herself.

— Liza Campbell

Painting is a coalescing of experience.

— Richard Phillips