Art Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Giacomo Puccini

Inspiration demands the active cooperation of the intellect joined with enthusiasm, and it is under such conditions that marvelous conceptions, with all that is…

— Giorgio Vasari

“Inspiration is God Himself speaking into the human spirit. Inspirational thoughts are God finding expression for His will through the minds of human beings.”

— Cindy Trimm

“Every thought we think is like a brush stroke on the canvas of our lives. Let’s choose our thoughts, then, as a great artist…

— Sol Luckman

I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough to think…

— Lorraine Hansberry

“Inspiration drives us to be more than we are by allowing us to see all that we could be.”

— Benjamin Lee Thompson

Our mind is the canvas on which the artists lay their colour; their pigments are our emotions; their chiaroscuro the light of joy, the…

— Anonymous

“What makes an amazing artist? It's not his ability to impress but his skill in touching people's lives through his craft. When he does…

— Elizabeth E. Castillo

“Inspiration, Admiration - Motivation [I AM]- a very well defined characteristic of the SOUL.”

— Sandeep N. Tripathi

“I have found a higher calling; inspirational-writing! I can’t imagine myself doing any other work, when I ought to write and transmit, awe-inspiring-words, to…

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“I think of inspiration as desire infused with spirit and topped with an almost reckless optimism.”

— Fred White

While it is emotion that gives an impulse to the landscape painter, it is his style that inspires the critic's praise, and his subject…

— Walter J. Phillips