Rodney Crowell Quotes

I like poems that inspire, that make us think and reflect. It's like putting love into the world for whoever picks it up.

The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.

All great art ... creates in the beholder not self-satisfacti on but wonder and awe. Its great liberation is to lift us out of ourselves.

Nothing is as uplifting as standing before a great painting whether it was painted in 1505 or last Tuesday.

Poetry, Painting & Music, the three Powers in man of conversing with Paradise, which the flood did not sweep away.

A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.

When we were studying at the Royal Antwerp Academy, we were taught to seek inspiration from everyone, everything and everywhere. My parents and grandparents were also a great inspiration for me a very young age.

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

When you see or hear something beautiful, it's like that thing is transmitting a kind of energy, and if that energy helped create the work, the only thing I can do is play it when I finally show the work.

There's a moment of recognition. It's that white-light kind of stuff that just 'works.' I love that. And you know it when it happens, whether it's a movie, music, a building, a book.

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

Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.

The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more than just my songs.

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

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.

If my mother hadn't been trying to be a writer, I don't know if I would have thought of it myself.

People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.

People go to movies or listen to music because they want to be inspired.

Artists thrive off each other, and when you see other people doing cool stuff, it inspires you to do cool stuff.

Beauty awakens the soul to act.

Inspiration is key for me in choosing characters.

I want to be inspired, and I want to hopefully do work that moves people as well.

I like films that probe emotional questions and inspire you to get creative and get writing, get draping, painting, cooking, whatever that thing is where you have that kind of output.

Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.