Quotes About Inspiration

I love Damien Hirst. I respect his work a great deal, and I am happy that the polka dots I started using have become a symbol of love and peace around the world with everybody joining hands to use them in this way.

What Bob and I had was something special that God ordained. Ours was more than a husband-and-wife relationship, it was as if we had to do something for our people, to become a symbol for our time, and that feeling is still going on no matter what.

Accident is as much a part of fiction as anything else, symbolic of the grace that, along with will, conspires to put words on the page.

When my dad founded our church, he used either a globe or a map of the world behind him. It was symbolic of what Christ said: to go forth and preach hope to the world. We believe in the cross, but we just continued with the globe.

I get myself a gig somewhere, whether it's in a club, whether it's in a bar, it doesn't matter, and I just work on New Year's Eve because I always feel it's very symbolic for me for the next year, for the new year.

Elvis is symbolic of a lot of things, dreams coming true being one of them.

Steve Jobs now rests with the sublime satisfaction of symbolic immortality.

There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart.

Studio D has a lot of symbolism for me.

Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

To me, there's two symbols for Team U.S.A.: the national anthem and the American flag.

I love Obama. And Michelle. I was so grateful for them. They were such stunning people. We were lucky to have them. They were great symbols for our society.

I had a horrifying experience but what the world fails to understand is that the handicapped need no sympathy, they need to be encouraged in whatever they do.

I'm constantly amazed by the ability a child has to show sympathy, to read emotions, to get to the heart of any situation. It's unfiltered and completely inspiring.

My faith tells me where to go and get started and what kind of sympathy to have for people once you get there.

There is just something about a symphony that moves my soul.

Not everyone can write a book or paint a picture or write a symphony, but almost anyone can fall in love. There is something almost miraculous in that.

I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony.

I free-form it, rock n' roll it. I'm a creature of risk, so I don't know how I'm going to explore a Beethoven symphony until I'm doing it.

My parents once caught me conducting Beethoven's 'Fifth Symphony.'

To me, a song is not finished. To me, there's no such thing as a finished anything. All of Beethoven's nine symphonies, to me, are one. I think of it as having no beginning and no end.

I grew up loving symphonies. Beethoven is beautiful.

If I weren't the way I am, I shouldn't write my symphonies.