Quotes About Inspiration

When you start writing the magic comes when the characters seem to take on a life of their own and write the words for themselves.

Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous.

The way I change my life is to act as if I am the person I really want to be.

My father once told me, and it's stuck with me to this day: As you walk through life, every time you fart it pushes you forward.

The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.

I'm not a morose person; it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life.

Desire, instead of being an obstacle to an inspired and fulfilled life, is the very thing that propels you toward it.

Essentially what photography is is life lit up.

I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life.

Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.

Ultimately, magic finds you, if you let it.

Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.

Victory will belong only to those who have faith in the people, those who are immersed in the life-giving spring of popular creativity.

I not only enjoy it, I think, how do you design things that are applicable to life - unless you live it?

If you always have something in your life that you're trying to improve upon, then every day you have a reason to get out of bed, and you have a reason to achieve something and feel good.

Knowing your deepest intention can be your guiding force in the creation of a better life.

Life is the soil, our choices and actions the sun and rain, but our dreams are the seeds.

Funk is the unending cycle of life. It's the ultimate concept—wherever your imagination will take it.

Remember to look at your glass half full and not half empty. A lot of my strength comes from God. God has given me a gift - the gift of life - and it's amazing that I live each day.

Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap.

The meaning of life is to live a meaningful life.

I'm hardly digging trenches for a living. I'm getting to tap into my boyhood fantasies of being a larger-than-life character.

Life is amazing. Live it to the fullest. Stay as long as you can.

Labor is life; thought is light.