Dominic Monaghan Quotes

I look at a lot of artists. I'm inspired by - I suppose I shouldn't say 'inspired,' but it's not really influenced. I am inspired. Art comes from art.

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

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

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.

Art is an investigation.

Making art has never been a mystery to me. It's never been something that's very difficult.

I cannot live without art: it excites me, it challenges me, and it leads me to the next thing.

My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.

Great art inspires great art.

I view art as an inspirational tool.

I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.

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.

And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.

I need art around me always.

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 want to bring art into everything.

The one artist who actually had influence over me was Bo Bartlett.

I always look for inspiration, and the creativity of artists is an essential element to my life, my work, and my happiness.

Artists have always been my biggest source of inspiration.

I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very early age I have spent time painting and drawing.

There's only one reason for my whole life, and that's art. Nothing else counts; nothing else gives me pleasure; nothing else gives me satisfaction.

Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art.

I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art.

Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.