Jimmy Page Quotes

In reality, however, an artist is a product of art

I'm a sponge, the more I absorb, the more I am able to articulate my vision, as artists do, like Picasso. I'm an artist in that light. I went from being an artist to an artiste.

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.

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.

Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.

My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.

What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.

I don't really care who gets their inspiration from where, it's the end results that count.

Sometimes a creative environment affects what happens within it.

Nature is my main source of inspiration - I will never stop taking hints from what I call 'the greatest artist'

If you're any kind of artist, you've got to ... keep opening yourself to new possibilities.

As an artist, you just want to keep creating, keep finding a place that really inspires you that feels fresh and new and keep it exciting.

The more an artist works the more there is to do.

I think that new artistic challenges help you grow both as a person, as an artist, and then they feed back into your other work, and tend to magnify it.

If an artist may say nothing except what he has invented by his own sole efforts, it stands to reason he will be poor in ideas. If he could take what he wants wherever he could find it, as Euripides and Dante and Michelangelo and Shakespeare and Bach were free, his larder would always be full, and his cookery might be worth tasting.

As long as the artist invents and is inspired, he remains in a constrained state of mind, at least for the purpose of communication. He then wants to say everything, which is the wrong tendency of young geniuses or the right prejudice of old bunglers. Thus, he fails to recognize the value and dignity of self-restraint, which is indeed for both the artist and the man the first and the last, the most necessary and the highest goal.

A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

I always say that intuition is the number one tool for an artist.

My hope is to continue to make new music and go with the flow. I think I'll always be creative. I want to keep making good music, put myself into positions where I need to rise to the occasion of playing in front of an audience, and continually get better at what I'm doing.

As an artist, you take things from your environment, and there's going to be a style coming out of your environment.

If you're going to be an artist, real life is your inspiration.

The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form [and] knowledge, keeps him fresh and from working only by formula, and feeds inspiration.

I can't say any artist inspired me, because I'm inspired by the things that go on around me.

And every good artist knows that the gift comes from somewhere else, and it's there for a reason, and that's to make the world a better place.