The phrase "artistic sources" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the origins or inspirations behind artistic works, such as literature, visual arts, or music.
Example: "The artist drew from various artistic sources, including classical literature and modern abstract art, to create a unique piece."
Alternatives: "creative influences" or "artistic inspirations".
But he is happy to be near one of his artistic sources.
Whatever his artistic sources, Masaccio's extant work reveals a concern with large and simple figures clad in simple draperies.
"I prefer Penthouses from the 70's," she said of her artistic sources, "because the photographs are less explicit.
Ms. Wilson is represented by 60 works from the past 22 years, revealing a wide range of artistic sources from Manet to Alice Neel to American folk art.
Focusing on England, Venomous Tongues uses a combination of legal, literary, and artistic sources to show how deviant speech was increasingly feminized in the later Middle Ages.
Drawing on evidence from literary and artistic sources, including hundreds of homoerotic paintings on Greek vases hidden away in museum storerooms, he argued that sexual love between males was an incontrovertible fact of Greek life.
Unlike some of Mr. Golub's other endeavors, "Vietnam II" has no historical or artistic source.
Django Reinhardt enthusiasts are a peculiar subspecies: no excuses are offered for fealty to a single artistic source.
On closer examination, his belief in the Bacon theory is an assertion of the value of theatrical collaboration, against the tyranny of a single artistic source.
The Waste Land was heralded even before its publication as the poem that would epitomise this literary movement, the artistic source from which modernism could endlessly renew itself.
Reading Masse Mensch in connection with another, hitherto unrecognized plausible artistic source - namely the danse macabre woodcuts of Alfred Rethel - lets us understand Toller's work more richly at the intersection of the political and the aesthetic.
