Quotes About Inspiration

Every true work of art must express a distinct feeling.

Have fire and spread all over. Work, work. Be the servant while leading, be unselfish, and never listen to one friend in private accusing another. Have infinite patience, and success is yours.

To be a teacher is my greatest work of art.

Loneliness sometimes gives me a quantity of creativeness - you're drinking another glass of wine and you're feeling even worse. Art doesn't work without pain; art also exists for compensating pain.

Girls playing sports is not about winning gold medals. It's about self-esteem, learning to compete and learning how hard you have to work in order to achieve your goals.

I like kids' work more than work by real artists any day.

A work of art doesn't have to be explained.

Every author has different ways of writing and what works for one author does not necessarily work for another.

Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without his work suffering impoverishment.

Malevitch discovered abstraction as an experimental principle that can propel creative work to previously unheard levels of invention; this abstract work allowed much greater levels of creativity.

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

Man's works do not even come close to the works of the Holy Spirit. If the Holy Spirit does not work, all the efforts of man will come to naught.

Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.

Three things are needed for success in painting and sculpture: to see beauty when young and accustom oneself to it, to work hard, and to obtain good advice.

I am always watching for fear of getting feeble and passé in my work. I don't want to trickle out. I want to pour till the pail is empty, the last bit going out in a gush, not in drops.

My hands were too soft.. I had to find some special occupation, some kind of work that would not force me to turn away from the sky and the stars, that would allow me to discover the meaning of life.

God didn't come down and tell me; I had to find it out through many years of experience. The work came first; the inspiration came later.

Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.

To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's own!

I can do what I love or I can love what I do. Learn to love the task in front of you.

We designers, we don't work in a vacuum. We need business people. We are not the fine artists we are often confused with.

Growing up, I saw my dad do charity work for children with health issues. That had a profound effect on me.

Each one of us is God's special work of art. Through us, He teaches and inspires, delights and encourages, informs and uplifts all those who view our lives.

I always ask God to work through me and let me be a light of some kind and help in this world, so I always pray for that, and I always want to do good.