Michael Muller Quotes

Nature's my muse and it's been my passion.

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

I don't write about nature, but I'm definitely very inspired by it.

I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.

Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie. Ordinary professionalism and twenty years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places. That still needs what it always needs - a condition of complete simplicity, costing not less than everything.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

One of the things I enjoy is the challenge of Mother Nature.

I'm inspired by nature. Other artist's work is important for developing my perception.

My inspiration comes from the common man and nature.

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.

I think that being in an extreme natural setting, and letting the natural world and what it's doing permeate your thoughts, is super-interesting and super-important.

The big artist keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools.

Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.

If you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live - the way you live - then I think you change the very instrument that is trying to make the art.

It's hard to predict and to say what goes on inside the minds of an artist, but that's what makes them an artist. That sense of creativity. That thing that makes them tick is probably the very thing that pushes them to the extremes that sometimes can cause, you know, fatalities and things that, you know, that end up not being good.

Look around at day-to-day life for ideas, and it finds its way into your work.

I don't know if nature is a direct literary influence on my writing, but it is certainly important to me. I take great joy in writing about it. It is something I have taken with me from my childhood; the body exposed to the threat of the physical world and at the same time being at home in it.

Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.

Being creative is my idea of heaven. I'm just incredibly fortunate that I can do it in artwork. Watercolor is what I started out with. What I love about watercolor is that a lot of happy accidents occur.

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.

I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.

In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?

I'm very inspired by nature - you could say Mother Nature. I look at things around me and get all kinds of inspiration daily.

Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.