Zoe Lister-Jones Quotes

The more I get to know more artists, the more they inspire me.

The idea is that what an artist lives through should broaden his notion of what it is possible for a human being to live through, and that new understanding should then get into and expand the work.

The grace to be a beginner is always the best prayer for an artist.

I think kids need to be allowed to be more creative and learn more about artists these days, so I'm all about that.

We work so hard as young artists to further our careers or improve our technique, sometimes it gets so easy to not actually go and see things like a play or a film. I think the best way to get better is to see other actors do what they do well.

That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.

I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist.

My artistic spirit is not nurtured by blogospheres.

I'm always looking at other artists and trying to get inspired by different things.

I have to say, Alejandro Colucci is amazing. I had seen his work several times before I started making the connection between the art and the person making it, and when I heard that he was going to work on the cover for 'Seven Forges,' that connection was not yet cemented.

I maintain that if you're a novelist and you go into an art museum, you'll come out a better novelist. And if you paint a picture for an hour you're a better actor at the end of it.

I was in art school once a week from six to 16, which was essential in shaping my artistic sensitivity.

My inspiration can come from anything - films, the street, paparazzi pictures.

If you're not educated to enjoy the arts, if you're not taken to a concert, or you don't hear something beautiful, you don't know what you're missing.

I drew as a child, they tell me. I can vaguely remember doing it. And then I drew again in the late years at high school.

You hope to be a part of something that makes you a better artist when you leave.

There's a new Mozart, a new Miles Davis, a new Misty Copeland, a new Matisse potentially languishing in a math class somewhere. If we fail to introduce them to art, we fail humanity.

I've been lucky to have grown up in the arts.

I'm inspired by many artists whose language I don't understand.

Different people have different ways of doing things. For me, becoming a songwriter first and falling in love with the Nashville songwriting community and the process of songs and getting better and putting more in what I wanted to say, was absolutely vital in me even wanting to be an artist.

As an artist, you want to have an experience. What you need to experience changes over the course of your life because your life changes.

If you're any kind of artist, you've got to ... keep opening yourself to new possibilities.

It's so crazy because kids that wrote to me when they were 14 years old are still in my life. A lot have gone on to become musicians and artists in their own right who inspire me now.

The more an artist works the more there is to do.