Create from the heart and be passionate about the themes and topics addressed in each piece of art.
Use personal experience to inform artworks. Overcoming personal struggles, like depression or a disorder, is the basis of many inspiring artworks.
Use art to capture abstract elements of inspiration, such as love, passion and innovation. The expressionist painter Jackson Pollock captured an entire tapestry of human passions by using emotionally charged "action painting" to apply paint to the canvas.
Use themes of humanity, either triumph, folly or struggle. Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz used her talents with fiber sculpture to create works which dealt with the stoic toughness of the human spirit.
Use inspiring historical characters and events. Jacques-Louis David painted "The Death of Marat" to inspire a new generation of politically and economically emancipated French men and women.
Use heroic characters, fictional or non-fictional, in artworks. Painter Diego Rivera used historical and allegorical figures in his murals to reinvigorate the confidence and spirit of the people of Mexico.
Create art based on aspirational ideas. For example, themes of spiritual, wealth and sensuality were used in many works of inspiring art which was produced during the Mughal Empires of southern Asia from 1526 to 1858.