Walter Martin Quotes

When I'm working, on stage, entertaining people, or watching someone do something amazing, it inspires me to be the best artist that I can be. I enjoy being around art - whether it be a museum, a Broadway show - or even writing a poem. Those are things that make me feel alive and inspire me.

[Great artists] do not copy what they see, but what they desire.

In the domain of art there is no light without heat.

Art is embedded in nature and they who can extract it, have it.

Art as a fantasy has been one of my earliest experiences. I suppose a lot of my childhood was a fantasy that involved getting away from things I didn't like. Fortunately it had some relationship to reality so that later I was able to, to some extent, act as I imagined I might.

People get inspired to write, paint, draw, sing, sculpt, dance in many different ways. And there are many types of art. But the one thing that they all have in common is that they are all a sort of magic. Sometimes the magic flows from one’s fingers, other times it is transferred to the person who experiences the result. Magic has always worked in mysterious ways.

Art is the result of a creative impulse derived out of a consciousness of life.

I really love art and I always have in every single different form and I just hope that I'm able to give some art that will touch some people and help them to be more positive and stronger.

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.

Painting is like breathing to me. It’s what I do all the time. Every day I make art, whether it is painting, writing or making a movie.

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument.

I think that artists don't make art - the art makes itself through us. I'm not the doer. I'm just along for the ride. Acting really reminds me of that because I don't write the words; I don't make the decisions. That's the director. Narcissism is a tragic condition. It must be so miserable to live trapped in a reflection that only includes the smallest version of our identities. Our true identities should have no bounds and no limits.

My reason for writing stories is to give myself the satisfaction of visualising more clearly and detailedly and stably the vague, elusive, fragmentary impressions of wonder, beauty, and adventurous expectancy which are conveyed to me by certain sights (scenic, architectural, atmospheric, etc.), ideas, occurrences, and images encountered in art and literature.

The art is just really mysterious. If I understood it more, maybe I would write more.

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. I was exposed to it since I was very small.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors.

I need art around me always.

The social dimension of the art world is fascinating to me, but I also want to entertain the reader, so I will let a character say something funny.

As an artist, you want to entertain people.

Making music and writing kind of come from the same creative place.

I'm inspired by art - in whatever form it takes. I love when I see a painting or a photograph that captures my attention.

In a lot of ways, the cool thing about modeling is that other people and artists I look up to are able to project their artistic visions onto me, and it was really exciting to be a muse in that way and carry out a vision.

When I see a beautiful piece of art, it inspires me to be creative.