Quotes About Inspiration

No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.

Servant-leader ship is all about making the goals clear and then rolling your sleeves up and doing whatever it takes to help people win. In that situation, they don't work for you, you work for them.

I have to believe that somebody up there thinks I've still got some work to do.

I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.

The main purpose of my work is to provoke people into using their imagination and make their surroundings more exciting.

More important than a work of art itself is what it will sow. Art can die, a painting can disappear. What counts is the seed.

The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel. In my opinion it's the perfect milieu for an artist to work in.

It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work.

Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.

You have been saying much about Dr. Carey and his work. When I am gone, say nothing about Dr. Carey; speak about Dr. Carey's Saviour.

If you hire people just because they can do a job, they'll work for your money, but if they believe what you believe, they'll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.

It is something that artists do all the time unconsciously, working in the style of someone they consider a great master. I just wanted to make that relationship literal.

A leader's job is not to do the work for others; it's to help others figure out how to do it themselves, to get things done and to succeed beyond what they thought possible.

The work of art is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn't needed.

Think about the world you want to live and work in. What do you need to know to build the world? Demand that your teachers teach you that.

One day a long time from now you'll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say about you. That's when you'll finally produce the work you're capable of.

I don't think you can create anything interesting from a comfort zone. You have to work from a place of fear and failure.

A leader shapes and shares a vision, which gives point to the work of others.

If you work at rap and look at it as an art, the money will come. But if you try to get the money, it'll just always be shallow.

A vision is not a vision unless it says yes to some ideas and no to others, inspires people and is a reason to get out of bed in the morning and come to work.

To create great work, here's how you must spend your time: 1% Inspiration 9% Perspiration 90% Justification

It's the best thing if your work is your passion in life. It makes me feel like I'm always on break.

You don't think your way to creative work. You work your way to creative thinking.

One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.