Dinah Jane Quotes

I've never been able to understand where great artists come from.

I do greatly admire Australian artists.

...As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.

There is nothing new in art except talent.

I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.

I believe artists deserve all the help they can get, so they can focus on being great artists.

My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'

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.

Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.

I have had an interest in art since childhood. I loved to draw as a child and still do.

A secondhand wardrobe hand clothes doesn't make one an artist. Neither do a hair-trigger temper, melancholic nature, propensity for tears, hating your parents, or HIV. I hate to say it - none of these make one an artist. They can help, but just as being gay doesn't make one witty... the only thing that makes one an artist is making art.

Writing music is just something that I was born to do.

I think a lot of times our culture has an attitude toward art and the production of art that separates artists from the rest of us, like making art or music or painting or whatever is some magical thing that you have to be inspired to do, and special people do it.

The modern notion of art is an essentially religious or magical one in which the artist is viewed as a holy beast who in some way, big or small, receives flashes from the godhead, which is known as creativity.

For people who write songs, it's a gift you're given. You become good at the craft, but you're given the gift.

I have never worked with anyone who I hold in higher esteem than Chris Menges. He's an absolute, bona fide, authentic artist.

I won a competition in primary school for my painting of Nottingham's Goose Fair; it was a riot of colour with glitter and sequins.

Clare Henderson creates the most beautiful delicate prints and paintings.

It's a thrill to see the birth of an artist.

The best of any artist is in their art.

To be taken seriously about doing something creative and probably travel a lot. That was my motivation. I knew I was good, I knew I could write. I also knew you could get laid really easily.

Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what really produced a master like Raphael.

A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.

We make images to "honor what is greater and more interesting than we are."

You never know what little bundle of encouragements artists carry around with them, what little pats on the back from what hands, what newspaper clipping, what word of hope from what teacher. I suppose the so-called faith in ourselves is the foundation of our talent, but I am sure these encouragements are the mortar that holds it together.