Francisco Costa Quotes

I view art as an inspirational tool.

Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

I like to find an artist who inspires me and get into their world and challenge them.

I'm constantly exposing myself to art and that inspires me.

Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.

The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement.

I barely knew I wanted to be an artist. I liked my art classes and painting was fun, I guess, but I didn't realize that seeing the country was going to inspire me to further explore that... but that's what it did.

I need art around me always.

My very first movie, 'Mary Poppins,' which I talk about, it just turned me into an obsessive, creative creature who had to sort of reply to the experience by drawing things, making things. It was like it forced - it made me into this obsessive, creative creature... I don't know any other way of putting it.

Wonder and awe are the diet of the artist and without them the world would be far less meaningful to us than it is.

Works of art inspire me to compose.

I collect art like other people eat pizza. I can't get enough of it. I need a constant source of inspiration.

I've never been a big fan of subtle art. I like art that gets deep into my head and starts my brain spinning with new ideas and inspiration and my whole body is full of energy.

I'm lucky enough and wealthy enough to be able to buy photographs and buy art that inspires me from day to day. I don't want a Picasso on my wall; it's great art, but it's dead art to me. I'd rather have a photograph by someone I've never heard of that really inspires me.

I get inspiration from movies, from fashion, then completely random things you'd never think of.

Art is something you can't teach, but you can inspire it.

To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul.

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

I wasn't exposed to art as I was growing up, and can't recall the first time I saw a work of art. However, I remember very clearly a vision I had of a little green reindeer when I was a child, and visions emanate from the same mythical area where painting resides. Whatever the reason, I immediately felt comfortable working with visual materials.

I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere.

This new art made a deep impression on me, and I began to study it ardently.

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

Some movies bring out the creativity in you. Every single audience member can become creative in the face of a particular movie. If you happen to like my films, it's because my films provide a bed for you on which you can find your creativity. The Hollywood movies do not provide that for you.

Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field.

An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions, and I have mine.