Quotes About Inspiration

I don't think in words; I think in pictures, in images.

I've been taking art lessons since I was little, and I've always drawn. I think in pictures.

I never want people to be repulsed with my pictures; I always want to attract people.

Literature is the stringing together of pictures in words.

When I came out to Hollywood, I discovered the perfect place for my creative madness - Cannon Pictures.

! discovered photography completely by chance. My wife is an architect; when we were young and living in Paris, she bought a camera to take pictures of buildings. For the first time, I looked through a lens - and photography immediately started to invade my life.

I think with pictures; I'm a very lousy writer. If I write without pictures, I become this pathetic chick sitting somewhere trying to be interesting.

I love that vision-board thing where you cut out pictures that resonate with you so they'll manifest. I've done that since I was three; I cut out pictures of ladies from the JCPenney catalog.

'The Indian Runner' was easy. It had been incubating in me for eight years, and by the time I sat down to write the thing, I had all the pictures in my head.

I certainly knew from an early age... how to tell stories; how to create pictures in other people's heads.

I try to make pictures I would want to see.

When I started working in fashion, I didn't have money to buy photographs, so I'd Xerox pictures from magazines and put them in notebooks. When I'd start a collection, I'd sit with my old notebooks and look through them for inspiration.

I want to make books. I want to take pictures and then write all over the pictures. And then I don't have to say a complete story, because I have the picture, and I have just a word.

Each mountain in the Dolomites is like a piece of art.

I look at every piece of furniture and every object as an individual sculpture.

You should never feel afraid to become a piece of art. It's exhilarating.

Finding ballet was like finding this missing piece of myself.

No one can ever create art, even on a piece of paper, as they have envisioned it in their mind.

To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.

There are always different influences each season. It could be a person, it could be a piece of furniture; it depends on what I'm obsessing about.

It is such a luxury to open a new book that's highly recommended by friends - either an inspirational yet humorously self-deprecating memoir, or a page-turning piece of fiction.

The most helpful piece of advice that I could give to anybody is to select a charity, or create a charity, that you really feel passionate about and if you do, don't give up.

I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece.

My kids are my greatest piece of art.