Dries van Noten Quotes

Art is something you can't teach, but you can inspire it.

I get inspired at different times and in different ways.

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

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

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

That talk of inspiration is sheer nonsense; there is no such thing. It is a mere matter of craftsmanship.

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

Sometimes I'm on the pulse of what's happening in Hollywood, but other times, I'm just totally absorbed by what I'm creating on the easel.

I'm grateful to have the chance to be inspired by the incredible artists that are out there.

A piece of fabric can get me going.

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 my mother, more than anyone, knew the importance of inspiration. If it was occurring, you had to use it.

We have such a great depth of human history in all of the arts, whether it's opera or mathematics or painting or classical music or jazz. There's so many things to study, new books to read, and certainly always ways to transform old ideas and to come up with new ones.

Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.

I have a few friends that have inspired me since I was a young kid. When I watch old films or modern movies - particularly 'Gladiator,' 'New Jack City' and 'The Skin I Live In' - I'll also get ideas.

While I was at college studying design I decided to paint. I was also greatly inspired by the colours that I had seen on my travels in the Brazilian Rain forest.

You don't get inspiration sitting at a drawing board or in front of your computer.

As I get older, I become more imaginative and feel like I have maybe a shorter time to get a lot of things going on in my mind done.

The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.

I am inspired by life, past experiences, what's to come, women around me, art, colors, paintings, and emotions.

If you're a creative person, what inspires you is always changing; it's always shifting.

I find inspiration in many places. Sometimes music gives me the kernel of a story. Sometimes it's dissatisfaction with the plot of a movie or a book that gets me thinking. Sometimes it's love of a movie or book.

A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.

I started out modeling at a young age and surrounded myself with different brilliant minds. I have so many people to get educated from, and I've been a sponge.

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