Artistic Tuesday: Quotes as Inspiration

Each Tuesday, I post an art prompt to spark a little bit of inspiration for your creativity.  These posts are versatile and can be applied to a variety of creative mediums.  Whether you enjoy digital art or acrylic painting (or anything in between like tags, digital art, mixed media, etc), these fun prompts will help you generate ideas for a new project, or maybe add a fun spin to a current project.

For this week, we are going to use quotes as inspiration. 

Here are a few of my favorite quotes:

“the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“Eternity sneaks in
her arms full of wild promises.”
― Rod McKuen, Listen to the Warm

"Her words pour out as if her throat were a broken
artery and her mind were cut-glass, carelessly handled."
― Judy Grahn, Detroit Annie Hitchhiking

"I'm out with lanterns, looking for myself."
― Emily Dickinson

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost."
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
― Robert Frost

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver

“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Sarah Williams

“If you are a dreamer come in
If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar
A hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyer
If youre a pretender com sit by my fire
For we have some flax golden tales to spin
Come in!
Come in!”
― Shel Silverstein

“Summer night--
even the stars
are whispering to each other.”
― Kobayashi Issa

Directions:  Take at least one of these quotes and allow it to inspire your artwork.  If you are creating art journal or scrapbook pages, or a card or other artwork via paper, put the quote onto your page somewhere.  If you are creating some other type of art or medium (jewelry, etc), merely allow the quote to inspire your project in some way.


This prompt is for any art medium or style.

My challenges and prompts are not interactive.  You don't have to come back to link up.  No comments are required, just your creativity!

For more inspiration, here is a scrapbook page I created with the prompt: