Quotes About Inspiration

I have put my whole soul into this work [The Pathetique Symphony] . . . You cannot imagine what joy I feel at the thought that my days are not yet over and that I may still accomplish much.

I have always believed that opera is a planet where the muses work together, join hands and celebrate all the arts.

Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it.

Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'll work late and be honest.

Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness.

I never take any notes or draw charts or make elaborate diagrams, but I hold an image of the shape of a book in my head and work from that mental hologram.

Yeah, my dream would be to work for 6 months and then have 6 months to play, just snowboarding, surfing, and going to cool places to listen and be alone and kinda chill out.

What's any artist, but the dregs of his work?

For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity and gloom.

Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn't work.

Only dull and impotent artists screen their work with sincerity. In art there is need for truth, not sincerity.

I like making work in my studio day in and day out, but I'm not so interested in the business side

It's important to wake up everyday and remind yourself what you're working towards. You create your own life, it's not set out there for you.

No great work of art is ever finished.

Invent your world. Surround yourself with people, color, sounds, and work that nourish you.

I do work too hard sometimes, but my mom is such an inspiration. She tells me to 'chill out' and not take things so seriously. She will say: 'Go and have a massage.'

The artist need not know very much, best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.

Rather than focus on your critics, focus on the people who are impacted by your work.

You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist.

The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.

To create a work of art is to create the world.

My favorite project is always the next one.

I cannot face with comfort the idea of life without work; work and the free play of the imagination are for me the same thing, I take no pleasure in anything else.

When I say work I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.