Quotes About Inspiration

Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.

Literature precedes genre.

The world of sculpture precedes by many years the world of architecture.

John Lennon made wonderful music, which people listen to as music. Nobody around the world is living their life according to the precepts of John Lennon.

I'd be making beats pretty much every day after school and it just grew and grew. I wasn't precious about my music. I just loved creating and putting stuff out there.

That creates the magic, and that's the wonderment of the musical process and how precious that is.

I've been blessed to spend time with young people and help encourage an environment where it's comfortable for them to be who they are. That's precious for children.

My mother was a huge, huge reader. I think I picked up very early how precious it was to write things in books and have people like my mother glued to the page.

I could not have written a novel if I hadn't been a journalist first, because it taught me that there's no muse that's going to come down and bestow upon you the mood to write. You just have to do it. I'm definitely not precious.

Some scripts you feel like everything is precious.

I construct myself and do things how I want to do them, because your artistry is a very precious thing - it's ultimately your whole life if you want it to be.

You get so close to your own music that you can't see the beauty in it. I had to learn to let go. It's good to be less precious.

I fell in love with pastry because I felt I could be much more creative. It's precise, and you don't have to kill anything.

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

I had no precise plan when I started 'Electronica,' but I think it has been a very positive journey for me.

Everything I've written I see in a very precise way and I hear in my inner ear.

I fell in love with Shakespeare when I was 12, and I read the whole works. Yes, I was precocious.

Some of the best ideas come from sheer discovery, and not by some masterminded, preconceived genius.

I have trouble working off things that are too preconceived, like storyboards.

You know, why does a painter paint? You need to communicate, you need to challenge preconceived ideas.

Young directors are a delight to work with. With no preconceived notions, they provide enough creative fodder for actors.

I'm not thinking about what needs to be on the radio. I'm not thinking about anything other than - I'm just going to let this music come out of me and not have any sort of preconceived notion of what I should do. I'm just going to do it.

Any working composer or painter or sculptor will tell you that inspiration comes at the eighth hour of labour rather than as a bolt out of the blue. We have to get our vanities and our preconceptions out of the way and do the work in the time allotted.

I love a challenge, and I love challenging people's preconceptions.