When you cannot find that vital inspiration; you feel the need to paint but cannot think of the subject, read a few quotes. You will find that is not just you, it is an artists disease – a lack of inspiration.

Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by
the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did.
So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging
on after others have let go.
William Feather

“An idea is worthless unless you use it.”
John Maxwell

“Even if you’re on the right track you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
Will Rogers

“Let’s make a dent in the universe.”
Steve Jobs

“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”
John Lennon

“Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.”
Gloria Steinem

Art is a means of adventure and therapy for the mind.
Lamar Cole

I am an artist… I am here to live out loud.
Emile Zola

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
James McNeill Whistler

The only time I feel alive is when I’m painting.
Vincent Van Gogh

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Pablo Picasso

If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
Edward Hopper

Great art picks up where nature ends.
Marc Chagall

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
Francis Bacon

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures
Vincent Van Gogh

Art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.
Louise Nevelson

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Pablo Picasso

The painting has a life of its own.
Jackson Pollock

There is no must in art because art is free.
Wassily Kandinsky

Art washes from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Pablo Picasso