Quotes About Inspiration

We want to set aside time for our creative work, but we feel we SHOULD do something else instead ... the Great Creator has gifted us with creativity. Our gift back is our use of it.

This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.

took pen to page, praying for guidance.

I took pen to page, praying for guidance.

the crazymakers in your life share certain destructive patterns that make them poisonous for any sustained creative work.

Remember that it is far harder and more painful to be a blocked artist than it is to do the work.

Creativity requires action, and part of that action must be physical.

tu artista es un niño y necesita alimentarse.

One of the great misconceptions about the artistic life is that it entails great swathes of aimlessness. The truth is that a creative life involves great swathes of attention. Attention is a way to connect and survive.

I learned to get out of the way and let that creative force work through me.

My God was always there, but now I have learned to talk to him. —ERIC CLAPTON

myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me. WILLIAM BLAKE

There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter.

I discovered that when one follows the artist's eye one sees unexpected treasures in so many seemingly ordinary scenes.

If it weren't for Julia Child, I might never have moved past brown rice and tofu. Worse, I might still be afraid of being less than perfect.

The more you know, the more you can create. There's no end to imagination in the kitchen.

Before heading back up the road, she had turned for a moment toward the sea. In the late afternoon light, the water was gray wrinkled with orange. Tiger water, she called it when it looked like that. Rhino water was smooth and leaden, dull as smoke. But her favorite was polar bear water, when the moon hung low and large, as if too heavy to rise very high, and scattered great radiant patches, like ice floes, across a dark blue ocean.

the monotony of quiet creativity, imagination fueled by routine and isolation

We don't always want to read about everyday things – and that silly stuff is so much fun to parody.

Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.

You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed. People may not notice at the time, but that doesn't matter. The world has been changed nonetheless.

It's easy, after all, not to be a writer. Most people aren't writers, and very little harm comes to them.

The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can.

You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed...