Quotes About Inspiration

The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done.

I come from a very rough background, and I'm saying that if you work hard and dedicate yourself that you can make it, too.

Watch your life as if it were a film. Absorb everything. What you see, hear, and feel will stamp every alphabet of your work.

An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create.

Perhaps the most valuable thing he taught me (his father) was that there is no contradiction between devotion to work and enjoyment of life and people

God doesn't do the work for you; he does the work through you. It's not enough to look up; you must also look within.

The artist is a spectator, indifferent or impassioned, at the birth of his work, and observes the phases of its development.

If you're excited about what you're doing, it's a lot more likely that your employees will also be excited. People want to work for a person, not a company. It's about relationships.

Those are miracles that no merely human brain can work. The artist is merely the sound conduct of a Force that dictates to him what he should do.

Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated.

Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.

Every work of art which really moves us is in some degree a revelation: it changes us.

The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.

Your life is a work of art, and in the end, the underlying theme of great art is bravery and hope and love.

I can always paint very well with my eyes, but with my hands it doesn't always work out.

I'm very feminist in the way I look at the world, and that worldview must somehow be part of my work.

I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.

When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.

The imagination, once awakened, must and will work, and ought to work

My definition of genius is not being that person the actual human is a genius, but it's a person that just allows God to work through them.

A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.

I've read somewhere that when you're writing, you should stop while you're doing well so you always want to go back to work.

If I succeed in putting some warmth and love into the work, then it will find friends. Carrying on working is the