Quotes About Inspiration

I think it's really cool to embrace the pain of something that may have hurt you and be able to express it through music.

The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into my music.

A lot of these guys come up and say, 'Man, you were my influence, the way you thrashed the drums.' They don't seem to understand I was thrashing in order to hear what I was playing. It was anger, not enjoyment - and painful.

You, the foreign media, have been the companion of my people in its long and painful journey to freedom.

A lot of people have gotten into comedy because of certain influences in their lives or events that were painful, and I really have wracked my brain to figure it out. I pretty much have had a normal childhood. Maybe it was too normal.

When I begin to write a story, I usually know how things will end. It's the journey toward that point I must discover. The process is sometimes painful, but also exciting.

There's nothing more painful than writing.

I eventually want to do writing on all the films, but not necessarily to be the writer. Writing is a painful, painful thing; it really is.

Sometimes, trying to make a work of art can be very difficult and very painful.

Since I began making movies, I've always looked for screenwriters instead of going through the long and painful process of writing.

I felt that if I shared the lessons that I learned - both the good ones and the bad ones - that I might make the climb a little less painful for other women.

Three hours of creating is taxing on any brain, and you should stop there. Some days, you may stop without any words at all. It's much easier to write new stuff the next day than to go through painful deletions of a day's worth of crap you already wrote.

I think being creative is incredibly difficult and painful.

I used to say it was painful to write lyrics about myself and looking inward.

A lot of time, my inspiration comes from pain: growing pains, hunger pains, or money pains.

I was born the same week NASA was founded, so we're the same age and feel some of the same pains, joys, and frustrations.

Writers like to write, and writing in different forms - short, long, bite-sized, done on the fly, done with painstaking attention - all interest me.

I start each of my scripts by going on a journey of painstaking research and discovery, much as I do a piece of long-lead journalism.

Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?

I've always wanted to be able to paint the dawn.

If you're an artist, you need to work. It doesn't matter how old you are, who you are. It doesn't matter if you're 12: if you draw, you draw. If you're 85 and you paint, you paint.