Francisco Costa Quotes

Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.

As artists, we can't help but infuse our art with our own experience, so your experience becomes informative.

I looked at Rembrandt and Superman, Matisse and Bugs Bunny, and began to make my own pictures.

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

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.

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

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.

All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.

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.

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

I guess artists are living inspiration. There's something very pure about a person that fantasizes. I like hearing their stories, watching them work. Their take on the world interests me. It's not unified.

Great art inspires great art.

When people ask me what it is about Brazil and my work, it's not something that I can say literally. It's unidentifiable. It's like when you do research and things inspire you. If you're smart enough, then obviously you don't take it literally. The inspiration will come out later somehow.

I view art as an inspirational tool.

As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.

My inspiration can come from anything - films, the street, paparazzi pictures.

Designers don't live in a vacuum; they are not blind to what's going on. They, too, will be inspired by what they see, and that will come out in their work.

I think it is the natural and innate function of certain organisms to secrete beauty in permanent forms we call artworks, to respond to beauty by answering its discovery with a new beauty.

If you listen to one of my albums, you can tell I do a lot of different things. In the case of 'Vincent', I thought of his picture 'Starry Night.' It was a beautiful road-map for a song. I used a lot of imagery from that painting.

I think art, at its best, happens on a conscious and a subconscious level.

Music has fed me a lot of ideas... The film BLUE VELVET came out of Bobby Vinton's version of the song BLUE VELVET.

You know, artists are influenced by other artists. We're all deeply influenced by what's around us; we don't make anything cold. Sometimes we think that we do. But within that, the most important part is that even though we're influenced, what are the levels of invention that we carry forth even as we've been influenced by something that's come before?

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

Everything I do, it's a bit painterly. I like being surrounded by objects, mostly on paper. I like the images. I like the painting. I like good photography. It's something that makes me an emotional connection, and I feel comfortable around it.